Quotes About Fulfillment

I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I think I've been lucky enough not to have to do movie after movie after movie for financial reasons, so I've been able to live life and also make movies. I didn't have to grind them out. I could go long periods where I was living life rather than tripping over cables.

I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

I don't feel insecure at all. There's nothing permanent here. One has to make the most of his/her talent.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you can choose to be.

Acting is a job of permission. Someone has to give you permission to do it. But I have started to be like, 'I only want to do things that I want to do,' and writing has afforded me the luxury.

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.

I'm happy with the person I become.

Y lo mismo que yo, alzando la cara entre dos restas, entre dos párrafos, miraba aquella plétora por los cristales de la ventana, detrás de la lluvia que sólo cubre el mundo para que podamos ver en su lugar nuestros sueños, la saciedad de nuestros sueños detrás de esa cortina gris donde todo está permitido.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.