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Quotes About Fulfillment

most of the time, but I didn't want anything
~ Erin McCarthy
Because you make me. Because I didn't exist, not in any way that matters, until I met you.
~ Erin McCarthy
The only reason Hastings wasn't happy was because he wasn't happy.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
You hear a lot about people who are afraid to die. Well, they're nothing compared to the ones who are afraid to live—people who go through life just making motions—and conventional motions at that.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
I'm satisfied now," Mason said.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there.
~ Erma Bombeck
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
~ Erma Bombeck
The grass is always greener on the other side.
~ Erma Bombeck
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say: "I used everything you gave me." - Erma Bombeck
~ Erma Bombeck
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me Erma Bombeck as quoted in A Christmas Blessing
~ Erma Bombeck
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.
~ Erma Bombeck
Children make your life important.
~ Erma Bombeck
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
~ Erma Bombeck
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say... I used everything You gave me.
~ Erma Bombeck
Anthropologists have long known that when a tribe of people lose their feeling that their way of life is worth-while they may stop reproducing, or in large numbers simply lie down and die beside streams full of fish: food is not the primary nourishment of man.
~ Ernest Becker
The healthy person, the true individual, the self-realized soul, the real man, is the one who has transcended himself.
~ Ernest Becker
Unlike the baboon who gluts himself only on food, man nourishes himself mostly on self-esteem. It
~ Ernest Becker
culture consists in the sum total of efforts we make to avoid being unhappy
~ Ernest Becker
Very few of us ever find our authentic talent—usually it is found for us, as we stumble into a way of life that society rewards us for.
~ Ernest Becker
The important conclusion for us is that the groups use the leader sometimes with little regard for him personally, but always with regard to fulfilling their own needs and urges.
~ Ernest Becker
He has to try to get as many ways of earning self-esteem as possible, to constantly broaden his skills, the things he genuinely takes pleasure in, in place of what others think he should take pleasure in.
~ Ernest Becker
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
~ Ernest Hemingway
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.
~ Ernest Hemingway