Quotes About Fulfillment

Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedious, but not if you brought a book.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

The moment Lucas stepped beside her, she felt as if her shelter were complete. The canopy might ward off the sun, but it was having Lucas at her side that made her feel protected, fulfilled . . . loved. She glanced up at him, and though she saw that his tie was still askew, she resisted the urge to straighten it. There would be a lifetime to indulge such impulses.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

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The audience wants to be taken to the limit, to where all questions are answered, all emotion satisfied—the end of the line.

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Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

The path is the goal.

We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself — And there isn't one. – Wei Wu Wei

A promise made is a debt unpaid

What honest man was never in his life without sustenance? And what human being has ever seen as the years pass his hopes, plans, and dreams completely undestroyed? Where is the soul whose longings and daring aspirations, whose sweet and lofty imaginings of happiness have been fulfilled without that soul's having had to deduct a discount?

He was one of those people who feel so compelled to fulfill duties that they go plunging into great collapsing edifices constructed entirely of disagreeable duties simply out of the fear that some secret, inconspicuous duty might somehow elude them.

Man paßt dahin, wohin man sich sehnt.

He doesn't see his path clearly, but also doesn't consider this absolutely necessary; he strikes out in some direction or other, and one thing leads to the next. All paths lead to lives of some sort, and that's all he requires, for every life promises a great deal and is replete with possibilities enchantingly fulfilled.

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

The gift that isn't big enough to make a mark, but is too big to leave the possessor in peace. And so they can't be content to be Sunday painters, or poets who write for a few friends, or composers whose handful of delicate little settings of Emily Dickinson can't find a singer. It's a special sort of hell.

I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe the tear from every eye.

Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things — the job, the house, the this, the that — do not really fill the place inside.

Who should accomplish your deeds? Who should carry your virtues and vices? You do not come to an end with your life, and the dead will besiege you terribly to live your unlived life. Everything must be fulfilled. Time is of the essence, so why do you want to pile up the lived, and let the unlived rot? -C.G. Jung, from Liber Novus

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Consider your duty done," said Mannerheim, looking back into his expanding incision. Philips

Because it can be the key to my freedom," said Martin holding her close. "You have become my promise for fulfillment and research has the power of giving me what I want from medicine as well as more time with you.