Quotes About Fulfillment

Success will be measured at the end of your career, not at the peak. When you're finished with baseball, if you love God, if you're still in love with your wife, if your children know who you are, and if your reputation is still intact, then you'll be successful.

High achievers are motivated by pleasurable outcomes. Underachievers are motivated by pleasurable methods.

There is always enough time to achieve what God wants you to accomplish.

You're about to make a lot of money. But that is not true success. Success will be measured at the end of your career, not at the peak. When you're finished with baseball, if you love God, if you're still in love with your wife, if your children know who you are, and if your reputation is still intact, then you'll be successful.

God wants each and every one of us to succeed, provided that our definition of success is right. God wants us to reach our potential and contribute to the world in tremendous ways. Success in the general sense is God's way of sharing abundance. He uses your success to bless others while you benefit yourself. Success is a multiplier, not a divider,

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Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Happy life years can be seen as happiness-adjusted life expectancy. The measurement has a powerful logic to it. It recognizes that a satisfying life is not ideal if it is short; and that a long life is not ideal if it is miserable.

The only thing that ever really gives us any genuine satisfaction is caring for other people. It doesn't matter how popular we are or anything. The only thing that actually makes life more fulfilling is our love for others... And the results speak for themselves.

I want to be good, do good, be a worker among workers, a friend among friends. But there's also this part of me that is so dissatisfied with everything. If I'm not living on the verge of death, I feel like I'm not really living.

Nic, the only thing that ever really gives us any genuine satisfaction is caring for other people. It doesn't matter how popular we are or anything. The only thing that actually makes life more fulfilling is our love for others.

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George Eliot: "It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Oh, happiness," said Frieda. "That's not what this is about.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

It was everything Napoleon could have wished for, everything he had ever wanted,

Distraction is the permanent end state of the perfected consumer, not least because distraction is a state that is eminently programmable. To buy a guitar is to open possibilities. To buy Guitar Hero is to close them.

Activities of self-realization are subject to increasing marginal utility:

When you work all the time, the other aspects of your identity recede until they seem to have disappeared.

She had seemed to need something from him that he hadn't been able to give...at last he realized that what she had needed from him was need itself. That he should need her as she needed him.

When you are having difficulties, a single attack of "Yeahbut maybe I should compromise a little for the sake of practicality" can bring an inglorious end to the fulfillment of your dream.

He writes down what he most wants to do. Then he commits to doing it. It becomes a goal, then a project to plan, with actions to take. Then it becomes an adventure to live. The point is not to become a goal setter but to live an extraordinary life. Clear goals are the path to that kind of life.