Quotes About Fulfillment

Forget purpose. It's okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

If you have a story to tell or a service to offer (it doesn't matter what), love yourself enough to choose yourself. Take control of your work, your life, your art. The tools are out there. Now you just need to use the tools inside yourself.

You're only working with if you count the money at the end of the night. Otherwise you're working for.

FRED WOLF: No one goes to Hollywood to meet their future husband or wife, or buy a house and have kids. They all go to Hollywood because they're kind of damaged and there's something they're searching for.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.

18 «Nell'esperienza di un grande amore tutto ciò che accade diventa un avvenimento nel suo ambito» (R. Guardini, L'essenza del Cristianesimo, Morcelliana, Brescia 1980, p. 12). 19 «La vita dell'uomo consiste nell'affetto che principalmente lo sostiene e nel quale trova la sua più grande soddisfazione» (cfr. san Tommaso, Summa Theologiae, II IIae, q. 179, a. 1).

Identifico in questo cuore ciò che ho chiamato esperienza elementare: qualcosa cioè che tende a indicare compiutamente l'impeto originale con cui l'essere umano si protende sulla realtà, cercando di immedesimarsi con essa, attraverso la realizzazione di un progetto, che alla realtà stessa detti l'immagine ideale che lo stimola dal di dentro.

If you were born to be a flood, you cannot insult Heaven by insisting you are a drought.

IF SOMEONE were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply: "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams Ã¢â'¬Â¦ provided I can remember them.

Éramos tão vorazes, no começo, que qualquer coisa menos que o mundo equivaleria a um coito interrompido.

O Jorge Luis Borges dizia que o escritor publica seus livros para livrar-se deles, para não ficar reescrevendo-os ao infinito. Mas Borges, que nunca fez um texto muito longo, foi um grande exemplo de quem sempre soube onde parar.

Gosto muito de uma frase do Zuenir Ventura, que diz que ele não gosta de escrever, gosta de ter escrito. O ato de escrever não me dá muito prazer, não. Bom é ter escrito.

Quizá yo empezaba a intuir que así es como la vida nos mueve y nos enreda, y nos fatiga sin desmayo, porque si no alcanzamos lo que anhelamos, el corazón lo perseguirá cada vez con más saña, pero si lo logramos o creemos lograrlo, añoraremos el anhelo que poníamos en la persecución. ¡Entonces sí éramos jóvenes e incansables! Entonces, siempre entonces.

me di cuenta de que ps no sé de que sí la estaba haciendo ¿no? de que sí la estoy haciendo de que en realidad hago lo que quiero y cuando quiero y eso ps yo creo que eso es la felicidad ¿no? hacer lo que quieras y cuando lo quieras hacer ¿verdad? sin más pedos claro a veces me canso a veces sí me harto como todo el mundo y entonces sí me dan ganas de mandar todo a la chingada

You're a classic case of Horney's: the man who comforts himself not with what he achieves, but with what he dreams of achieving.

Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.

It's great to be excited by your profession, whether you are a doctor or a writer. I started writing books when I was in medical school and, by the time I graduated, I realized that writing was more exciting to me than being a doctor. And if I tried to be a doctor and a writer, then both would suffer.

You get one life so Live and live it well!!!

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

Self-seeking breeds loneliness; self-forgetfulness breeds fullness.

Our problem really isn't that we need something we don't have; our problem is that we don't find God to be enough for us.

God created human beings with a capacity for loneliness so that we would yearn for and find our all in him.