Quotes About Fulfillment

each of us really wants, deep down, is more life. Happiness, success, peace of mind, or whatever your own conception of supreme good may be, is experienced in its essence as more life.

The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell

When your self-image is adequate and one that you can be wholesomely proud of, you feel self-confident. You feel free to "be yourself" and to express yourself. You function at your optimum.

There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

You are born to achieve beyond potential, let your every breath counts.

Bilo mi je lijepo, bio sam gotovo sre?an. Zurio sam u blistavu vodu, satima, i puštao da mi preko ruke prelazi obli talasi?, dragaju?i me, kao da je živ stvor. I to je bilo sve što sam htio, sve što sam želio.

?etrdeset mi je godina, ružno doba: ?ovjek je još mlad da bi imao želja a ve? star da ih ostvaruje.

Zar mislite da ?e ?ovjek posti?i ono što želi?

Ništa ?ovjeku nije važnije od svog mira i od sre?e koju sâm stvori. Zato je treba ?uvati, tu svoju sre?u, opkoliti je šan?evima, i nikome ne dozvoliti da je ugrozi.

San je ono što se želi, a život je bu?enje.

The everything of womanhood carries no reward at all. And yet, everything still has to get done. So you keep working and you stop waiting, but the hope is still there, tucked in a corner. Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps you going—the hope that that someone—that one person—will applaud.

that you didn't work just for the money, you worked for the freedom work gave you, for the chance to be a stronger, more interesting version of yourself.

Back then I didn't know what he did exactly, but I knew that's what I wanted--to come home and be as happy as he was

some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

She accepted the permission bestowed by passion to live entirely in the present.

I shall bring him his tea and work myself to death by the time I am thirty bearing children and scrubbing floors and working in the fields digging turnips till my hands bleed and my back gives out and everyone urges me to keep on for just one more year, at which point I will die of exhaustion and the meagerness of my own life. I will love him and care for him, will never tell him to get his own tea, or sweep the ashes from the hearth or give birth to his own twelfth child himself.

but it was like some witch's curse where the more we tried to stop being hungry the more starving we got. It