Quotes About Fulfillment

It's what I do when I don't want to think about anything hard. It is an activity that requires very little from you—you just follow the directions, and then at the end you have created something. From ingredients to an actual dessert. It's like magic. Poof, deliciousness.

Being happy is more important than anything else.

Love is not overrated. Or a waste of time. I think everyone says that when they're not in love, never been in love, or they were in love and it didn't go their way. Why? Because a life with no love is no life at all. (Anna K)

When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?

For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

Would you like to be a doctor when you grow up?" I ask her. She looks at me oddly. "I'm already a doctor," she says.

What T. S. Eliot said: When all is said and done the writer may realize that he has wasted his youth and wrecked his health for nothing.

All my life now appears to be one happy moment. This is what the first man in space said.

Young person worry: What if nothing I do matters? Old person worry: What if everything I do does?

I savoured the moment because the moment was more than enough

For a man who could have anything he wanted... why do I have the sense that you rarely get what you want?

there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

But you will say now, has faith a warrant to believe deliverance, that it shall be fully delivered? I dare not say so, but it may act upon it, to believe that God will make it good in his own way. Perhaps you have not done as much, and so because of that, this promise is not fulfilled to you.

Suppose for example, that he lacks outward comforts, good cheer and feasting, a good conscience in a continual feast; so he can make up the lack of a feast by the peace that he has in his own conscience. If he lacks melody in the world, he has a bird within him that sings the most melodious songs in the world, and the most delightful. And then does he lack honor? He has his own conscience witnessing for him, that is as a thousand witnesses.

But godliness with contentment is great gain' (v.6)—there is the glory and excellence of it; as if to suggest that godliness were not gain except contentment be with it.

I showed them a clip from Brokeback Mountain, which I think was done a tremendous disservice when they pitched it as a gay cowboy movie. I didn't see it, but it's fairly clear from the trailer that the point of the movie is that it's great to have a job that consumes most of your day.

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Your success is mandatory, there's someone who has not been born or conceived yet, that's waiting on your story

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.