Quotes About Fulfillment

I think the disconnect is more related to the idea of "being" anything when it's the "doing" that's more rewarding. Being something isn't real in the same way that doing something can be real.

Maybe it's a cliché, but you have to focus on verbs over nouns -- what you want to do, not what you want to be.

take the final necessary steps—arranging and recording—needed to dress my songs up enough to send them out into the world.

I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word.

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

Live only for yourself and you will never grow; live for the welfare of all those around you and you will grow to your full stature.

When we do things with only a part of the mind, we are just skimming the surface of life. Nothing sinks in; nothing has real impact. It leads to an empty feeling inside. Unfortunately, it is this very emptiness that drives us to pack in even more, seeking desperately to fill the void in our hearts. What we need to do is just the opposite: to slow down and live completely in the present. Then every moment will be full.

Oh, of course I'd be BREATHING all the time I was doing those things, Aunt Polly, but I wouldn't be living. You breathe all the time you're asleep, but you aren't living. I mean living—doing the things

She did not realize it herself, but she had so long been accustomed to wanting what she did not have, that to state offhand what she DID want seemed impossible-until she knew what she had.

Em geral, conseguimos encontrar em qualquer coisa que nos deixe contente, se procurarmos o bastante.

And from what you've told me, Brian does an excellent job in that role, but a big dick ain't everything nor is licking you senseless with a thick tongue.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?' Elie Wiesel

When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?

Oh, to recover faith! And the innocence of before. To live in the moment, to hold desire and fulfillment in one's grasp, to fuse with someone else, with oneself; to become infinity

Never let a man be responsible for your happiness.

Perfect happiness existed, but perhaps only in small increments.

Ultimately, though, healing is not about whether you die. Healing is about how fully you live. I

This lifetime is yours to make what you will of it

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.

The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.

Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and worked here on earth, fulfilling moment by moment His divine commission and the stern demands of His incarnation. Never was there a word or even a look of complaint.