Quotes About Fulfillment

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Grace will complete what grace begins. God does not abandon his work in an incomplete state." WILLIAM JONES

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If ... a man measures life by what others do for him, he is apt to be disappointed, but if he measures life by what he does for others, there is no time for despair.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

I think all wishes are the same, really," she continued. "Whether they ask for this, that, or the other, what they are really asking for is happiness.

They want what they don't need, or can't use, or won't ever make them whole.

People who don't know me well wonder that I'd give up my badge for an apron, thinking that flipping burgers is a big step down. If they asked me, which they don't, I would tell them that when a man stumbles onto happiness, he'd be a fool to pass it by. It's as simple as that. Sam's Place makes me happy.

Every life lived fully is going to have some regrets, because every risk is not worth taking, but you don't always see that in time. Or if you do, you convince yourself that you'll be the one to beat the odds.

Ah, my long hunt is finally over," she said. "Today, justice will be done.

The extent of a man's greatness is determined by his ability to follow his proper direction. We create our own destinies, and yet we do not. We forge a new path as we proceed, and yet the path already exists beforehand, though it is not always well marked. This is the paradox of life; and a paradox is not a riddle to be solved, but a place to dwell in, if only for a brief time.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

When your ambition is so wrought that you're never satisfied, it takes a load of pressure off. Every spot on the ladder is equally disappointing because it is not the rung above. Which means I've perfectly filled my potential; I've reached as high as I'll ever get, the point of not good enough.

Who is rich? As the scholar Ben Zoma once said, 'He who is content with his lot.

All he knows is that he has done exactly what he was supposed to do.

We're coming! She felt like shouting it to the sky. We're on our way!

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.