Quotes About Fulfillment

These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect. HEBREWS 11:39 – 40

I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. JOHN 17:4

The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. JOHN 3:29

Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives. TITUS 3:14

Johannes said greedy people can never be happy, and I would so much like to know what it feels like to be happy. Johannes said that when you very much want something you haven't got, you no longer care for what you have got. I'm not sure I understand, but I suppose he meant that things are only worth having if you think they are.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

Joy is the best makeup.

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

This was what marriage was like, being able to look one's fill.

No." She smiled. "I am exactly where I need to be. I have no desire to enter negotiations with Lord Garrett and his heir." He couldn't keep down his dark pleasure at that.

It longer seemed important to prove anything. I had found something outside myself that gave meaning to my life.

But something happened to me as I got more and more involved in the Movement. It no longer seemed important to prove anything. I had found something outside myself that gave meaning to my life.

It no longer seemed important to prove anything. I had found something outside myself that gave meaning to my life.

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.

Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at things yourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.

I's only the things you don't do that you end up regretting: the women not courted, the paintings not painted, the paths not taken.

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

She owns her own hunger.

I ate you up. All my need took you down like a meal.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.