Quotes About Fulfillment

Continually setting goals and striving to achieve them is what makes life worthwhile!

I couldn't imagine life unless I could continue to have powerful experiences in the wild, and I never wanted to be in a place where I wanted to do something but my body couldn't....

it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses.

Hope-to cherish a desire with expectation of fulfillment.

It's like getting an extraordinary meal after you've been eating junk food for a long time. The taste just sweeps through your sensibilities, bringing all-out contentment, and the sheer goodness of it makes up for every bad meal you ever had.

Our life purpose has both a general and a specific aspect. The first has nothing to do with our work in the world and everything to do with learning how to give and receive love.

Mother Meera is a contemporary Hindu saint who teaches that if we want anything we have to ask for it with our whole heart in a way that "your heart can be empty and God can fill it." To pray in this way it is necessary to remember that God has already given you the kingdom.

Once we have lightened the hold of the ego over us, the intention to fulfill our life's purpose becomes less a matter of personal identity and more a strong commitment to make the world a better place.

Carl Jung: "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

Simply being active is not life.

I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something.

A home-bound woman who depends on bridge clubs and shopping sprees for amusement has only half a personality.

life is the vessel we have been given in order to find out what life is really meant to be about.

Bloom where you are planted,' the poster reads. But the poster does not tell the whole story. ' plant yourself where you know you can bloom' may well be the poster we all need to see. Or better yet, "Work the arid soil however long it takes until something that fulfills the rest of you finally makes the desert in you bloom.

We should employ our passions in the service of life," Sir Richard Steele wrote, "not spend life in the service of our passions.

The essence of life is not to find the one thing that satisfies us but to realize that nothing can ever completely satisfy us. And that's all right.

There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it.

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...

I thought carefully about the events of the evening and decided that there must be limitations on desires. It wasn't true that I could have anything I wanted. I felt good about understanding that, but I still didn't know how people figured out what it was safe to want. I did know, from my mother's scolding, that 'wanting' was a problem. If the desire could not be filled, then I was greedy and selfish. Since I couldn't figure out how to judge the possibility of fulfilling a desire. (66).

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.

Even as a little girl, Irma Leopold had wanted above all things to see everyone happy with the cake of their choice. Sometimes it became an almost unbearable longing, as when she had looked down at Mademoiselle asleep on the grass this afternoon.

Having a baby is part of a woman's life, and it is surely a great waste to be afraid of life.