Quotes About Fulfillment

I'm working 30 hours or so a week, and if I'm being honest I'd rather it was 50.

Me being myself, I'm not happy when I'm not playing.

You can't put a price on being proud of what you do.

People think that being rich is all about having money. But the times I've had the most money is when I've been unhappiest.

My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.

People say dreams aren't a thing that happen, and I'm a believer that they do.

I don't do a film with which I myself won't be happy. More than believing in the script, it should be fun shooting it.

I do belong on stage.

Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

I feel like if I don't get a film and somebody else does, then that film never belonged to me. The ones I get belong to me.

I think there's something about having a purpose in life and a sense of belonging that is more important than money for any human being.

I don't feel like my job is to be beloved.

I'm happy that I got an All-Star under my belt.

I didn't need the belt to validate me.

I don't care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.

Just winning a belt, it doesn't mean anything to me.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness…. And this was most vexing of all," he noted, "HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.

Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.... And this was most vexing of all, he noted, HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.

My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.