Quotes About Fulfillment

Who had the biggest army in the ancient world? Caesar Augustus in Rome, and that is precisely how he was able to dominate that world. Nevertheless, his army is nothing compared to this angelic stratias that has lined up behind the new emperor. Remember Isaiah's prophesy that Yahweh would one day bare his mighty arm before all the nations. N.T. Wright has magnificently observed that the prophecy finds its fulfillment in the tiny arm of the baby Jesus coming out of his manger-crib.

How do we come to choose what it is that we spend our days doing? Would we choose it again if we could? Did we choose it today, or has it simply carried us along somehow?

Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad scramble to have everything else.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

What good is love if you never ask anything of it?

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?"

Be happy, and a reason will come along.