Quotes About Fulfillment

I've always considered myself lucky that I could mostly earn a living by doing what I love, but a bonus has been the sheer escape that comes with woodworking. What do they call it? Being in the zone or the flow?

Wasn't there something to be said for working to live, as opposed to living to work?

It's better to be happy than comfortable, if you can't have both.

In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't.

She struggled to think of one day in more than fifteen years of life when instead of drifting along like a leaf on the river she'd simply grabbed what she wanted. The

You can have anything in life that you really want, but you must be prepared to take the responsibilities that go with it. God is ready the moment you are.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, "He who is content.

If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

If you win the adoration of others by pretending to be someone you're not, you may gain celebrity or high office—but you will lose out on the fulfillment of a life best-suited to your attributes and abilities.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, He who is content.

the same thing, really, that we all want: to live in peace, to be happy, to do as we like and never be foiled or forced to act against our wishes.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

For you will learn by experience that it's true: the things that men admire and work so hard to get prove useless to them once they're theirs.

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

If it should ever happen to you to be turned to externals in order to please some person, you must know that you have lost your purpose in life.

Don't look for it in externals; it isn't in the body, and, if you doubt me, just look at Myron or Ophellius. It isn't in wealth, look at Croesus, or look at the rich of today: you'll see how unhappy they are.

Find satisfaction in following your philosophy. If you want to be respected, start by respecting yourself.

Since I can get greatness of soul and nobility from myself, why should I look to get a farm, or money, or some office, from you? I will not be so insensible of what I already own.

Epictetus] believes that God gave man the means to fulfill all his obligations; that these means are within his power, that happiness is attained through what we are capable of, this being the reason God gave them to us. Our mind cannot be forced to believe what is false, nor our will compelled to love something that makes it unhappy. These two powers are therefore free, and it is through them that we can become perfect.

Look at the matter in this way. Since we can see that a dog is fitted by nature to do one thing, and a horse to do another, and a nightingale, if you like, to do yet another, it wouldn't be absurd for one to declare overall that each of them is beautiful precisely in so far as it best fulfils its own nature; and since each is different in nature, it would seem to me that each of them is beautiful in a different way. Isn't that so? The student agreed.

But they have produced such wonderful fruit in a human mind, as part of their plan to bestow on humanity the true secret of happiness.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. —T. E. Lawrence

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.