Quotes About Fulfillment

the great divide lies between men as lovers and men as consumers. Does he seek her out, long for her, because really he yearns for her to meet some need in his life—a need for validation (she makes him feel like a man), or mercy, or simply sexual gratification? That man is a Consumer, as my friend Craig calls him. The lover, on the other hand, wants to fight for her—he wants to protect her, make her life better, wants to fill her heart in every way he can.

Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.

You have only one life to live.It would be best to live your own.

When we taste something that we think is good, our longings cease to ache, for a minute, but later we find ourselves empty once more, needing to be filled again and again.

The glory of God is man fully alive. (Saint Irenaeus)

I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." (L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

All of the happiness we have ever known and all of the happiness we hope to find is unreachable without a heart.

Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that a woman wants? What does she dream of?

We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.

Something has gone wrong in us, very wrong indeed. So wrong that we have to be told that joy is found not in having another man's wife, but in having our own. But the point is not the law; the point is the joy.

The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.

How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What's Wrong with the World)

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."2

Todo hombre anhela que lo elogien y que encima de eso, le paguen bien.

We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.

If I've lost the capacity for, and the enjoyment of relationship, I know things are deeply off in my soul.

your heart is made for the kingdom of God. This might be the most important thing anyone will ever tell you about yourself: your heart only thrives in one habitat, and that safe place is called the kingdom of God.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Happiness is the full use of one's talents along lines of excellence.

It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.

His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.

No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.