Quotes About Fulfillment

There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty.

You see, some of us just find our niches somehow.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

like my mother used to say, it's good to make ends meet but sometimes it's nice to have enough to tie a bow.

He (The 4th Doctor) concludes, as befits his Bohemian heroism, that the quest itself fulfils the quest - to travel is better than to arrive, and taking part is more triumphant than winning.

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

Our purpose in the world is to gain joy and fulfillment though unity with the Creator. This purpose never changes. It is unaffected by the material conditions of our lives, including the state of our health.

As human beings, we are naturally driven by goals beyond physical satisfaction or mental supremacy to seek a deeper level of meaning and fulfilment.

At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.

If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have and my own preconceived, silly notions of what I think I am—and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God—then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen. —John McLaughlin

Always we desire too much or not enough and we compensate accordingly.

E chi non vuole intraprendere una lotta accanita di sforzi inutili, pericoli profondi, trappole, chi non è pronto a dare tutto per sentirsi vivere, non ha bisogno di diventare funambolo. Soprattutto , non lo potrebbe.

There is no burnt rice to a hungry person.

We are here for a finite amount of time...it's up to each of us to make that time meaningful and special.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is a child of God.

Every time we see a man who has attained our human ideal a little more fully than we have, it wakens our languid blood and fills us with new longings.

Life is rich it's full of gifts-the more you have the more there is to share. You know its men with small souls who think there isn't enough to go around. They fight to keep their little grasp on their tiny piece of the world and they're always angry because they're never satisfied. They're cursed with a hole they can never fill. They may get things done but they can never keep what they've achieved.

By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.