Quotes About Fulfillment

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

Create expectations to fulfil them.

Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast?

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

What I aspired to be,And was not, comforts me.

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Trying to get our emotional needs met through sex does not work.

Go fetch to me a pint o wine, an fill it in a silver tassie.

I wasna fou, but just had plenty.

Contented wi' little and cantie wi' mair.

The purpose of life is to have a life with purpose.

The purpose of life is life of a purpose.

Live your Life go to your grave empty don't let your dreams get buried under six feet of dirt

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

Carol's life had been so incomplete: a verb without an object

If you lose contact with this inner calling, you can have some success in life, but eventually your lack of true desire catches up with you. Your work becomes mechanical. You come to live for leisure and immediate pleasures. In this way you become increasingly passive, and never move past the first phase. You may grow frustrated and depressed, never realizing that the source of it is your alienation from your own creative potential.

You do not belong to you. You belong to the Universe. Your significance will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your job if you apply yourself to converting your experiences to the advantage of others.

Through our work and through getting what we need on our own, without depending on others, we can stand tall and realize our potential as humans.

Work at what connects to you emotionally and ideas will come to you.

His approach in these cases was to imagine that each person, no matter how twisted, has a reason for what they've become, a logic that makes sense to them. In their own way, they are striving for fulfillment, but irrationally. By stepping back and imagining their story from the inside, Chekhov demythologized the brutes and aggressors; he cut them down to human size. They no longer elicited hatred but rather pity.