Quotes About Fulfillment

But you're wrong. Happiness is EARNED, like everything else. It's achieved.

If I were to ever have a full-fledged vocation, as opposed to a half-assed avocation, I needed to love it and, in my experience, it isn't always easy to figure out what you love.

A real life doesn't mean getting what you want; the achievement, the priviledge, too, is knowing what you love. But getting what you love? Having what you love love you back? Oh, my friend, its a miracle: your one tiny life's head-on collision with divinity.

I know a lot of people do jobs their whole lives that they don't find fascinating. Wonder is a luxury. But I wanted it.

I'm not sure what I'll do next, though. The problem with me is that I like to work; I like to do what I do well and completely; I just don't have a calling. Not yet, anyway

I'd figured out that a real life didn't mean attaining my heart's desire, but knowing it, meant not in the satisfaction, but the longing. Knowing what you love and why, I found out, is as real as it gets.

It's what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It's the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.

deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It's something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

But in the same way that she wanted a marriage and a profession, she was determined that motherhood would not be the end of her career.

For my own part, I have never found happiness in love.

Tears are for happiness.

It is more important to live the life one wishes to live, and to go down with it if necessary, quite contentedly, than to live more profitably but less happily.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

We each do the best we can. My best may not be as good as your best, but it's my best. The fact is we know when we are doing our best and when we are not. If we are not doing our best, it leaves us with a gnawing hunger and frustration. But when we do our best, we experience a peace.

I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

Once, for Paul, as for his contemporaries, Israel's election and the demand of the law stood side by side in unresolved tension. Now he found their resolution, not in some synthesis or new idea, but in an event: the incarnation, crucifixion and resurrection of the Son of God. In Christ the demand of the law and the fulfillment of promise meet.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

We start dying the day we stop dreaming. And ironically, we start living the day we discover a dream worth dying for.

Joy is not getting what you want; it's appreciating what you have.

We need to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.

When we enter into a covenant relationship with God, we tend to focus on the fact that we are legally and morally bound to God, but God is also legally and morally bound to us. The gospel demands that we give all of ourselves to God, but when we do, God gives all of Himself to us.