Quotes About Fulfillment

As Joseph Campbell wrote about middle age, 'There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.

Alan Watts, who gave us the image of trying to wrap up water with string, made the point that it is absurd to work at something you don't enjoy, purely to make more money to be able to live longer and continue doing something you don't like.

there is a deeper happiness to be had in knowing that your life is part of a story of flourishing than there is in merely pursuing entertainment.

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

It's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it... It's okay to find what makes you happy and then to fight for it. To dedicate your life to discovering who you are.

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.

We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

Janaka told her to bring happiness into marriage, rather than seek happiness from it.

There is great joy in satisfying oneself,' said Hanuman. 'But there is greater joy when we satisfy ourselves by satisfying others. Still greater joy when we do not need satisfaction. And even more joy, when despite not needing satisfaction, we provide satisfaction to others.

Most desired form of happiness? 'Contentment

When you live only once, the value of your life becomes the sum total of your achievements. Hence the need to align or achieve, which are the driving forces of Western thought.

Wisdom is all about outgrowing hunger, be it physical, emotional, intellectual or social.

To let our potential be realized without deriving our identity from it, or without denying its existence, is the hallmark of wisdom.

She followed her husband to ensure he never felt incomplete.

God is not an external trophy to be possessed; God is internal human potential to be realized.

When should we stop?' 'When your needs are met and before you fall prey to greed. Knowing when to stop is the hallmark of a good king,' said Krishna.

Bagi saya, hidup terlalu singkat untuk dilewatkan dengan biasa biasa saja. - Kugy

lalu bagaimana kalo ternyata apa yang kita cari selama ini sebagai ketidaklengkapan sebenarnya hanya rectoverso belaka? Yang artinya kita tidak perlu kemana-mana. Yang artinya lagi untuk merasa utuh kita hanya perlu mengubah perspektif kita. Ketika kita berhasil mengambil jarak dari benih-benih pemecah belah dalam pikiran kita, maka rectoverso akan tampil. Yang artinya lagi (dan lagi), apa yang anda ingin cari tidak berada di luar sana sebaliknya sangat dekat tak berjarak.

I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'

Marry, don't marry,' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple strudel. Just don't have your babies unless it's absolutely necessary .' How do I know if it's necessary?' She stops and stares ahead, her hands gloved in flour. 'Ask yourself, Do I want a baby or do I want to make a cake? The answer will come to you like bells ringing.' She flickers her fingers in the air by her ear. 'For me, almost always, the answer was cake .

An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.