Quotes About Fulfillment

The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

We are born with inalienable emotional needs for love, safety, acceptance, freedom, attention, validation of our feelings, and physical holding. Healthy identity is based on the fulfillment of these needs.

As long as you hold onto wanting something from the outside, you will be dissatisfied because there is a part of you that you are still not totally owning. . . . How can you be complete and fulfilled if you believe that you cannot own this part [of yourself ] until somebody else does something? . . . If it is conditional, it is not totally yours. —A. H. ALMAAS

We feel loved when we receive attention, acceptance, appreciation, and affection, and when we are allowed the freedom to live in accord with our own deepest needs and wishes.

It is a sign of health when we acknowledge the legitimacy of our longings.

This is the true joy in life: being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish, little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

If our emotional needs were fulfilled by our parents/caregivers, we emerge from childhood with a trust that others can give us what we need. We can then receive love from others without distress or compulsion. Our needs are moderate. We can trust someone to help fulfill our needs while we help fulfill hers. This provides a foundation for a life of intimacy and equanimity.

The perfect partner is the mirage we see after crossing the desert of insufficient love.

Then we become more adult, because we are fulfilling the inner urge that all humans were born with: to go on a heroic journey, to move on rather than stay stuck. Where we are is not our fate. It is where we can best begin the journey.

Besides, she likes Judy Garland and knows that if she sings a Judy Garland song, she's gonna sing it better than Judy ever could. That gives Aretha great satisfaction.

And there's never gonna be enough money And there's never gonna be enough drugs And I'm never ever gonna get old There's never gonna be enough bullets There's never gonna be enough sex And I'm never ever gonna get old So I'm never ever gonna get high And I'm never ever gonna get low And I'm never ever gonna get old

They need leaders who help them shine, who help them fulfill their potential at work.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

As Lucy says, "Winning isn't everything; winning big is!" Most of us need to win big. The problem, however, is that there seems to be a law of diminishing returns: the bigger wins give a decreasing measure of satisfaction.

Human beings are not made to take shortcuts,... You're to live your life, moment by moment. Your life isn't here to entertain you - it's to be lived.

The solution of rabbinic Judaism, however, served only to create another, more serious dilemma: How can the individual fulfill God's will without experiencing Him directly as did his ancestors? If all of the force of religion is based on the compelling revelation of God to his predecessors, as it is transmitted by the Torah, why should not the experience of God be available to him as well?

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. URSULA K. LE GUIN

Having more money doesn't necessarily make you happier, but more time can!

It doesn't mean that you have so much money coming in you don't have to work anymore. It means having the freedom to do what you really want in life, and the freedom to be the person you are striving to be. What

And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.

If we are incapable of controlling our existence, life loses its meaning, too.

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