Quotes About Fulfillment

Lord, he prayed, thank You for Your continued grace. Help me fulfill Your plan for my life; give me a heart to hear Your voice. . . . And please, if You would do the same for Dooley . .

extraordinary, but I found it

In Ephesians 5:28, we're told that he who loved his wife loves himself. In effect, a good marriage happens when the happiness of the other is essential to your own happiness. We might say that a good marriage is a contest of generosities. 'How wonderful that it's possible to ensure our own happiness by seeking the happiness of another.

If his wife was happy and his boy was happy, he was happy.

It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.

We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of spiritual knowledge, experience and love that has been given to us, and that we must constantly be looking forward eagerly for the highest good.' 

One of the prizes of old age is its release from competition.

There's someone out there who needs you. You must live your life so that person can find you.

Find what brings you joy and go there.

The ultimate resolution to the search for happiness is spiritual.

T]he mechanics of life should never be allowed to interfere with living.

Left wing...Right wing...it's so limited; why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone?

What elevates one and not another to the level of genius is not only talent and ambition and luck, but a gift for turning everything to the purpose. ... Perhaps that is a common element in the story of genius: beyond talent and ambition and luck, in some degree you have to be forcibly booted out of everyday life and everyday goals. In any case, it was like that with Brahms. The fulfillment of love was denied him so that other things might take wing.

In some instances we saw how God had changed our requests, transformed our desires, and then given us things that we didn't know we wanted until he placed them in our hands.

Leven moet geleefd worden. Je moet er ernst van maken anders ben je een plas die verdampt.

I felt a sense of pride swell in me. Not for myself but for these two women. They were everything I wanted to be someday—successful, happy, dedicated to their town and its people, and most importantly they knew who they were.

She had no idea how long these moments of pure unadulterated glee would last, but she was going to enjoy the hell out of it as long as she could.

Man must work, she might well have said, and woman must not weep.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

What makes me happy I seem to catch out of the sky with both hands; I only hold whatever it is that I love because that is all I can really see.

Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

I think I made good movies.