Quotes About Fulfillment

It isn't your anger that will make you good at this job. It is your joy.

You are not among the good that has happened to me. You are the best of all that I have known. You are what I searched for when I left that house and wandered this earth, boy and man. You are the part of myself I never thought to find because I did not even dare to dream you existed. You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me to you.

life is not about achievement. It is about the effort. If one takes pleasure in every step, one enjoys the whole journey.

He was entirely happy alone. He had his books and his music and his specimens, and that was all he needed. He also carried on a wide correspondence. His friends were far flung across the globe, but none of them intimate.

I am talking about seizing your life and truly living it before it is too late.

It isn't your anger that will make you good at this job. It's your joy.

He went on. "You are not among the good that has happened to me. You are the best of all that I have known. You are what I searched for when I left that house and wandered this earth, boy and man. You are the part of myself I never thought to find because I did not even dare to dream you existed. You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me to you.

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.

It was strange to have those papers signed. Like any big project or crisis that takes every waking and non-waking moment in your life, it was odd to have it concluded. A move, a college degree, a wedding--something long-strived-for is completed, whatever the outcome, and there is a huge space where it all once was. All that open time now, and a continuing nagging sense that there's something you need to be doing.

This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, even 80 percent. A relationship—it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't be embarrassing or uncomfortable or downright ugly. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of a guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It should be perfect for you. It should be lasting.

And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?

but truthfully, a kiss needs something more important than curiosity. A kiss needs desire. A kiss should rocket past the excitement level of eating lettuce.

And maybe that's the closest definition for the word we can get, a life equation: An absence of wanting equals happiness.

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.

Be the best you.

Find what speaks to your energy and live it.

Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no turning back.

Be your best company.

By making sad ones happy, we find our happiness!

One day the people that didn't believe in you, will tell everyone how they met you.