Quotes About Fulfillment

She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties.

One instant, you're just a regular Joe, schlepping through your mundane life, and then suddenly - what is this? - nothing has changed, yet you feel stirred by a grace, swollen with wonder, overflowing with bliss. Everything - for no reason whatsoever - is perfect.

Vaata, see ongi sinu häda. Sa soovid liiga palju, musike. Sul on selgroo asemel sooviluu.

El final es el mismo, así que mejor si el viaje es feliz.

I do what I do because I like doing it.

So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

She loved it even more than ever, perhaps, because now, as an adult, she finally had the perspective to appreciate the value of her own joy.

You may want your work to be perfect, in other words; I just want mine to be finished.

We are an increasingly depressed and anxious people—and not for nothing. Arguably, all these modern conveniences have been adopted to save us time. But time for what? Having created a system that tends to our every need without causing us undue exertion or labor, we can now fill these hours with . . . ?

Life was just unbelievably happy.

Do whatever brings you to life, then.

But if your calling is to make things, then you still have to make things in order to live out your highest creative potential—and also in order to remain sane.

Done is better than good." I

And while the paths and outcomes of creative living will vary wildly from person to person, I can guarantee you this: A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner—continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you—is a fine art, in and of itself.

Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for a giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom.

É melhor viver o nosso próprio destino de forma imperfeita do que uma imitação da vida de outra pessoa na perfeição Bhagavad Gitav

Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING.

because in the end, creativity is a gift to the creator, not just a gift to the audience

The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

most of my prayers are expressions of sheer gratitude for the fullness of my contentment.

She's a cheerful soul who's having a wonderful time living out the existence that best suits her nature and most brings her to life.

But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with thick, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.

I think a creative life is the most marvelous life there is.