Quotes About Fulfillment

How long do you mean to be content?

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.

There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly. There's someone out there who will one day find me and fall in love with me and prove that all this waiting actually meant something....

I believe we have arrived at a time when many of the end-time biblical prophecies will be fulfilled. Some are positive in their fulfillment, and others are quite troubling. When the time comes for a global government, a universal tracking system, currency changes, and selective judgments, we must all learn how to be strong and take lessons from faithful believers in the past. They learned how to fast, pray, endure persecution, and remained true to the faith until the end.

Alas, for him who is gone and hath done no good work! The trumpet of march has sounded, and his load was not bound on.

happiness isn't to be pursued, it is to be enjoyed. Like life.

It's more important to know whom you are called to be with than what you are called to do.

I wanted to sit there forever, drinking in bitter satisfaction, using someone else as a license. In the years that followed, I did a lot of that.

We were defined by what we did. What we had to do. I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you're 33 34, and you don't have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled.

Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.

many new psychological studies now show that persistence – even more than intelligence or innate talent - is the key psychological characteristic necessary for finding fulfillment in life.

For just as without night there is no day, without work there is no play, without hunger there is no satiation, without fear there is no courage, without tears there is no joy, and without anger, there is no real love. Most people, who choose or are coerced into only identifying with "positive" feelings, usually wind up in an emotionally lifeless middle ground – bland, deadened, and dissociated in an unemotional "no-man's-land.

Remedying this developmental arrest is essential because many new psychological studies now show that persistence – even more than intelligence or innate talent - is the key psychological characteristic necessary for finding fulfillment in life.

For people to be happy in life, two factors are crucial: One is good interpersonal relationships and the second is a feeling of productivity. That feeling feeds motivation.

The best years are when you know what you're doing.

I was at peace with a world which afforded so much bounty, and began to enjoy living at the very end of time.

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.