Quotes About Fulfillment

Nothing is ever perfect, he wanted to say. Wanting everything to be perfect is a recipe for misery.

The reward for all high performance must be sought within itself or sought in vain.

Dreams come true, I guess, just not always how you imagine them.

You'll find true happiness in the smallest things.

When you are able to embrace the reality that in any given moment you have everything you need, you'll find a way to be happy with what you have.

With no one to share it with, success would be just another reminder that she was alone.

All she needed now was a happy ending.

and they shared her joy. Luke 1:58

Adaon smiled gravely. "Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

I've heard men complain of doing woman's work, and women complain of doing man's work, but I've never heard the work complain of who did it, so long as it got done!

My joy is in the craft, not the gain.

It is not given to men to know the ends of their journeys, Medwyn answered. It may be that you will never return to the places dearest to you. But how can that matter, if what you must do is here and now?

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us?

He is here now, Taran said quietly. He has long sought you and in ways even he himself did not know. Now that he has found you, can you not find your path back to him?

they lived happily ever after

Was there someone there, waiting, who would receive the tiny released twin? Would it grow up Elsewhere, not knowing, ever, that in this community lived a being who looked exactly the same? For a moment, he felt a tiny, fluttering hope that he knew was quite foolish. He hoped that it would be Larissa, waiting. Larissa, the old woman he had bathed. He remembered her sparkling eyes, her soft voice, her low chuckle. Fiona had told him recently that Larissa had been released at a wonderful ceremony.

satisfaction.

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

Identity. That's my elephant. The thought came with certainty, without the question mark on the end this time. Not fame, exactly, though recognition was some kind of important cement for it. But what you were was what you did. And I did more, oh yes. If a hunger for identity were translated into, say, a hunger for food, he'd be a more fantastic glutton than Mark ever dreamed of being. Is it irrational, to want to be so much, to want so hard it hurts? And how much, then, was enough?

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

Are you glad, or sorry?" "About children?" She glanced at his face. He seemed to have no awareness of having hit a sore point dead on. "They just haven't come my way, I guess." The

exactly what Commander Cavilo wants. It's why she shipped me back