Quotes About Fulfillment

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full contact -- all that?

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

That you need God more than anything, you know at all times in your heart. But don't you know also that God needs you—in the fullness of his eternity, you? How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you—for that which is the meaning of your life.

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.' 

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.

To her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most of her potential.

When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man's remains will be in rigor mortis.

Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled" Barack Obama, US President

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

If a man can eat his fill and have a willing bedmate in the same place every night, he quickly grows lazy.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

We desire whatever it is—the place, the person, the thing, the period in our lives—we're convinced we're lacking. The

trying to take satisfaction in life from the numbers you ring up is ultimately no more successful than making survival your goal.

Having purpose differs from having any particular purpose. You get meaning in life from the purposes that you join. But after working in a particular discipline, industry, or job for twenty or thirty or forty years, you begin to be wedded to that specific purpose, that particular form.

He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.