Quotes About Fulfillment

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

It never occurred to me to be happy with my lot.

that's what love does to you. Gut-wrenching, overpowering, crushing, fulfilling, complex, bring-you-to-your-knees love.

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

I love watching people's dreams come true.

was truly happy, and at least for that moment, no man could take that from me.

You may have had that lonely conversation with yourself by now, but if you haven't, let me tell you. You can have people encourage you and talk to you all day long about your potential, but if you're not there, ready and willing to be that for yourself, you'll never be fulfilled.

I'VE GROWN INTO MYSELF to understand where I'm going and what I want to do. I always knew who I was but I didn't know how to get to where I thought I needed to go in order to be "that person." I think a lot of us are intimidated by what we are called to be, but we already have everything we need in our hearts.

While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

So as lovely as romance can be, we have to make sure that we're not falling into the trap of making our entire life about searching for an unrealistic notion of happiness. While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

Parents expect their children to be their soul mates in the same way they expect of their spouse—they want children to make their lives and families complete.

My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.

Food is the best substitute for everything, because it does not put up any resistance, but surrenders instantly.

Unrestricted satisfaction of all desires is not conducive to well-being, nor is it the way to happiness or even to maximum pleasure.

Solo l'amore disinteressato è un sentimento maturo, completo.

Know thyself is one of the fundamental commands that aim at human strength and happiness.

By being I refer to the mode of existence in which one neither has anything nor craves to have something, but is joyous, employs one's faculties productively, is oned to the world.

Alle Menschen sind Idealisten und können gar nicht umhin, Idealisten zu sein, vorausgesetzt, dass wir unter Idealismus das Streben nach der Befriedigung von Bedürfnissen verstehen, die spezifisch menschlich sind und die über die physiologischen Bedürfnisse des Organismus hinausgehen.

T]o the extent to which an individual is potent, that is, able to realize his potentialities on the basis of freedom and integrity of his self, he does not need to dominate and is lacking the lust for power.

L'atto sessuale senza amore non riempie mai il baratro che divide due creature umane, se non in modo assolutamente momentaneo.

Une société essentiellement vouée au consumérisme et à l'accumulation de marchandises induit l'individu à minorer son souci d'être (être bien, être quelqu'un de bien, faire le bien) et à majorer ses tendances à avoir, à accaparer, à s'aliéner dans les choses, accumuler les pouvoirs.

em todos os tipos de obra criadora o trabalhador e seu objeto tornam-se um, o homem se une ao mundo no processo da criação. Isto, porém, só permanece verdadeiro para o trabalho produtivo, para a obra que eu planejo, produzo e em que vejo o resultado de meu trabalho.