Quotes About Fulfillment

She was fifty, a difficult age for letting go, still young enough to have ambitions and desires but with fewer opportunities of satisfying either.

If she had had daughters, Beatrice reflected, what advice she would have given them! She would have told them that the time for display was limited, that the years would add weight, both physically and metaphorically, that a time would come when second thoughts were wiser than heedless impulses Ã¢â'¬Â¦ She would have urged them to enjoy men, as many men as possible, before they became aware, as she was now, of the neutered state that awaited them.

I have been aware of a boredom, a restlessness, that no ordinary friendship can satisfy: only and extraordinary one.

Not everyone is born to fulfill an heroic role. The only realistic ambition is to live in the present. And sometimes, quite often in fact, this is more than enough to keep one busy. Time, which was once squandered, must now be given over to the actual, the possible, and perhaps that evanescent hope of a good outcome which never deserts one, and which should never be abandoned.

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Women want to find one man to satisfy their many needs while men want many women to satisfy their one need.

one or both of those babies could be president one day. Or they could discover the cure for a terrible disease, or one could be a famous musician or even a preacher.' I stopped and considered for a minute, wondering what would impress her more than that. 'Or just be fine and decent men or women, or man and woman, who would be a blessing to you in your old age. There's a purpose for every soul that comes into this world...

Are you happy?" "I think I may be going to be happy." Remember, things do not force, forge or fashion. They fall into place

Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

What I really took in in India was that people - even in the slums - were happy with what they'd got. That's something we're not good at in the Western world.

I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.

It is a truth universally unacknowledged at Westminster that there is life after politics.

Life is about balance. You don't want to live out of whack over here or out of whack over here. I want to win and be well compensated, and I think there's a balance to find. It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

Instead of picking your career and backfilling your life behind that, what if you pick your life and backfill your career with whatever is left over?

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?'

What if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime?

You see your children growing. You look at your grandchildren, and you say to yourself, 'What if I weren't here? Have I done all I can to prepare them for their role in life?' You realize that you never quite do everything, but you want to do better than what you have done.

I like film, and I like Broadway; I just love performing, so whatever God has for me, I'll be happy to just try it and see what happens because no matter what, if I'm performing, I'll be happy.

I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again.

You know what, if I had to do it all again, I would do the same things as before. I would meet the same people, make a lot of friends, bring a lot of happiness to my country. I get to travel all over the world, doing seminars. I have thousands of students in the Nogueira gyms.

Just do what you love. This is what I am doing.

Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.