Quotes About Fulfillment

My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.

Early in my career, during my first few years at Oracle, I defined my success by making money and achieving power. By my early thirties, however, I realized that these superficial achievements did not provide real meaning or true happiness. Despite a list of impressive titles and a pile of material possessions, I felt that something was missing, and began to consider my place in the world and how I could make a difference.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

We need to work less to achieve more. We need to stop fighting food and start embracing it. We need to stop punishing our bodies and start providing for them. We need to slow down and enjoy and then we'll get the results we've been looking for—and sooner than we expect.

How different would your life be if you lived as if today were your last?

The underlying dynamic here is that a want can easily be interpreted as a need. This happens in two ways. First, we can make our emotions the criteria of reality. "If I feel that something is true, then it must be true." Second, we can indulge a desire for so long that we become dependent upon its fulfillment. Eventually, we believe that we cannot live without the object to which we have become attached. We become trapped by our desires.

Perfection consists in [20]doing His will, in being what He wills us to be.

joy isn't found in the material objects surrounding us but in the inner recesses of the soul.

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being what He wills us to be

Money can't buy love.

doesn't always work, but when a venture succeeds, there is nothing else quite like it for the mind and spirit.

Let's do what we love and do a lot of it.

Arrive-t-il un moment de la vie où le bonheur est passé, où l'on n'attend plus rien ? Est-ce cela que vieillir ? Lorsque aujourd'hui ne parle que d'hier, quand le présent n'est plus qu'un trait de nostalgie que l'on cache pudiquement par des éclats de rire ?

Não é verdade que a felicidade é aquilo que procuramos sem nunca sermos capazes de a reconhecer?

Finalement, le bonheur, n'est-ce pas ce après quoi nous courons tous sans être vraiment capable de le reconnaître ?

Toate visele au pretul lor

Le bonheur se trouve souvent plus près de nous qu'on ne l'imagine.

Das größte Vergnügen im Leben besteht darin, Dinge zu tun, die man nach Meinung anderer Leute nicht fertigbringt.

As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65

C'est quand on a tout donné, quand on ne tient plus à rien qu'on possède tout.

Ik wil branden in het vuur van mijn gevoelens. Ik wil alles, want alleen als ik alles heb weet ik dat ik iets ben. Ik wil meegevoerd worden om de zinloosheid van mijn bestaan te vergeten en ik wil de ander vervoering, onderdompeling en overgave geven en laten ondergaan om duidelijk te maken dat er niets is buiten mij, dat ik de kern van haar bestaan ben, dat het nergens beter is en dat ik alles verdien wat zij kan geven.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.