Quotes About Fulfillment

By finding a way to keep gratitude as a constant companion, the blessings of joy and contentment become our reward.

A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something -- writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a secret garden; if at four in the morning the right word comes to you, the perfect flower to plant in that particular spot -- you are playing your invisible instrument.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Basing your goals on outcomes that deeply matter to you increases your chances of attaining these objectives because of the feelings of fulfillment they inspire within you each step of the way.

Always there is the one choice to be made: which road to take? which duty to accept? which item, amidst a store's displays, to purchase as our own? The paths of the past parts of our lives are strewn with things not chosen. One believes, nay, one is taught , that choice provides fulfillment of desire. In truth, however, relinquishment and loss enter in to the bargain every single time. Loss looks over the shoulders of fair choice. For every thing one chooses, some thing is left behind.

having a lover doesn't necessarily mean having someone to love".

he could make his little corner of the planet a bit better. Which was worth getting up in the morning.

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

I said Jeannine why are you unhappy? I'm not unhappy. You have everything (I said). What is there that you want and haven't got? I want to die. Do you want to be an airplane pilot? is that it? And they won't let you? Did you have a talent for mathematics, which they squelched? Did they refuse to let you be a truck driver? What is it? I want to live.

She said that instead of conquering Everest, I could conquer the conqueror of Everest and while he had to go climb the mountain, I could stay home in lazy comfort listening to the radio and eating chocolates. She was upset, I suppose, but you can't imbibe someone's success by fucking them.

Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

We are as intimate with God as we choose to be."7 The only limitations of God's presence in our lives are the limits we ourselves set—the excuses we set up to avoid being filled to the measure with God.

I want to own every part of you," he continued, his breath hot against my skin. "I want to throw you face-first across this counter, rip off those shorts, and fuck you hard and fast until my goddamned cock stops hurting and my balls don't feel like they're gonna explode. Because they've felt that way for a helluva long time, Soph, and I'm startin' to think it's not gonna go away unless I do something about it.

Cat pee isn't a bad smell if you have a cat that you love.

Te puedo dar todo -añadía- excepto entusiasmo", nos vimos tres veces, la cuarta se vino a dormir. Apenas llegó Se instaló para siempre en mi vida. No hay nada mejor Que encontrar un amor a medida.

Quando se ama deveras e se está com o objeto do amor, não se recorda, não se deseja, não se quer mais nada!

For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

I now realize what Dorothy means in the final scene from The Wizard of Oz, when she says that if you have to look beyond your front door for your heart's desire, perhapsit was never there to begin with. Maybe, like Dorothy, I should embrace the love right in front of me and not search for some elusive dream that never mattered in the first place.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. VIRGINIA WOOLF, A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.