Quotes About Fulfillment

If he doesn't give you the same feelings you get when the pizza guy arrives, he's probably not worth it.

It was a riddle to see a person could get what they wanted and regret it, could even regret wanting it in the first place.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

People were getting homes, jobs - everybody was getting served one way or another.

I was about to say that you were not created for this lovelessness.

Why waste a life in search of an epitaph?

Most people today are not getting what they want. Not from their jobs, not from their families, not from their religion, not from their government, and, most important, not from themselves. Something is missing in most of our lives. Part of what's missing is purpose. Values. Worthwhile standards against which our lives can be measured. Part of what's missing is a Game Worth Playing.

Once you recognize that the purpose of your life is not to serve your business, but that the primary purpose of your business is to serve your life, you can then go to work on your business, rather than in it, with a full understanding of why it is absolutely necessary for you to do so.

JESUS MAY CALL YOU TO CHANGE CAREERS AND BECOME A MISSIONARY . . . BUT IN THE MEANTIME YOU ANSWER HIS CALL BY DILIGENTLY DOING WHATEVER IT IS YOU DO.

Do what you enjoy doing, do what you're good at doing, and do what the world needs doing.

And that's a problem. This excellent emphasis on the higher purpose of heaven often stifles the simple pleasures of earth.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

His dreams were the natural reflex of hope and redeemed curiosity.

He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living. Knight

Such a display of beauty and happiness is not possible without contentment,

He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.

One becomes free, Socrates seems to have taught, not by fulfilling all desires but by eliminating desire.

Those with less become content," says the Tao, "those with more become confused." The

Our whole lives, Jefferies said, are wasted traveling in endless small circles; we are all "chained like a horse to an iron pin in the ground." The richest person, Jefferies believed, is the one who works least. "Idleness," he wrote, "is a great good." For Jefferies, like

I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives, and I wondered then if Knight's journey was to seek it. But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts

Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." —Leonardo da Vinci

Stupidity, selfishness and good health are the three prerequisites of happiness, though if stupidity is lacking the others are useless.

The perfect servant is the one who attends to all the master's whims - anyone can do that - but the one who anticipates the whims.