Quotes About Fulfillment

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

Friendship and sex were really all she wanted from men these days.

It was strange how, when there was nothing else in your life, sex was everything.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

The problem with the "wanting mind" is that even if you get what you think you want, it does not stop. It says, "All right, I have got the nice car, but now I need more money." It is always something that we do not have in the present moment—something that we want to obtain in order to satisfy our longing.

The problem with desire is that you do not desire deeply enough! Why not desire it all? You don't like what you have and want what you don't have. Simply reverse this. Want what you have and don't want what you don't have. Here you will find true fulfillment.

It is not enough to touch awakening. We must find ways to live its vision fully.

Do not ignore the effect of each wise action saying, "This will come to nothing." Just as by the gradual fall of raindrops the water jar is filled, so in time the wise become replete with good. Dhammapada

It is only life that has meaning, not death,

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.

These few weeks can either be the longest or the shortest in our lives. But when you look back, you would realize that they were also the most rewarding.

The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy,

Genghis Khan warned them against the pursuit of a "colorful" life with material frivolities and wasteful pleasures. "It will be easy," he explained, "to forget your vision and purpose once you have fine clothes, fast horses, and beautiful women." In that case, "you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

the only career worth pursuing is the one that turns your crank.

When I sealed the deal on Douglass, I thought I had everything I wanted. But I was wrong. You're everything thing I want. Everything I need.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Life should be good - Life should be very, very good - and the only duty we have to the dead is to make it good for ourselves and other people.

The ego thought system is based not only on guilt, but on lack. The scarecrow thinks he needs a brain, the tin man thinks he needs a heart, and the lion thinks he lacks courage. We are taught we have to earn everything here, or that it has to be bestowed upon us by someone worthier or better than we are. We suffer and sacrifice ourselves in order to be worthy of God's love. Does this feel right to you?