Quotes About Fulfillment

Tag said solemnly, "You can feed your wallet, or you can feed your soul, but you seldom can do both at the same time.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

For the worker bee, life is given over to the grim satisfaction of striking a firm line through a task accomplished. On to the next, and the next. Check, check. Done and done. It explains—and solves—nothing to call this workaholism.

The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not to be confused with perfection.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

It was now, the day I had been dreaming about for so long. No longer a dream but real. Not to be wasted but to be lived.

It's funny how sex factors into the way people describe the state of their relationships. Studies show that, when things are going well, sex contributes only 15 percent to the overall satisfaction of a relationship. But if things aren't going well, it contributes 85 percent to the dissatisfaction.

There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's no money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams, and love.

There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's not money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams and love.

while happiness is something more personal, something a little more selfish perhaps.

We made it," said Joe. "It just hits me now.

Deliver more than you promise.

to answer . . . is, 'What does a woman want?' Sigmund

I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

When you get what you wish for, it's never quite what you think it will be.

I had to imagine this was the dream of every good person - to find the world in need of the thing you love doing.

If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.

Thus his music has gone, as he says, 'from being about place to becoming place.'55 In doing so, it has fulfilled his wish in the semantic meaning of enchantment, 'to be in a song': 'I no longer want to be outside the music, listening to it as an object apart. I want to inhabit the music, to be fully present and listening …'56

Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death." Auntie Mame

Life is a banquet and most poor bastards are starving to death!

Hence, when we are told that Christ appeared in the fulness of time, the fact of which we are mainly assured is, that all was done which was properly required for bringing the Church, whether as to her internal state or to her relations to the world, into a measure of preparedness for the time of His appearing.