Quotes About Fulfillment

To get the most out of what you wanted, you had to have what you needed first.

With our limited lifespans, we mere mortals have to figure out what but to do with our time so that when it ends we aren't ashamed to put our name on it, call it our life.

The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be.

To end loneliness, you need other people—plus something else. You also need, he explained to me, to feel you are sharing something with the other person, or the group, that is meaningful to both of you. You have to be in it together—and "it" can be anything that you both think has meaning and value.

The difference between being online and being physically among people, I saw in that moment, is a bit like the difference between pornography and sex: it addresses a basic itch, but it's never satisfying.

You've got to pull yourself out of the materialistic environments—the environments that are reinforcing the materialistic values," he says, because they cripple your internal satisfactions. And then, he says, to make that sustainable, you have to "replace them with actions that are going to provide those intrinsic satisfactions, [and] encourage those intrinsic goals.

In general, we want to take the easy way out, but what makes us happy is doing the thing that's a little bit difficult. What's happening with our cellphones is that we put a thing in our pocket that's with us all the time that always offers an easy thing to do, rather than the important thing.

Materialism is KFC for the soul.

They found that 13 percent of people say they are "engaged" in their jobs—which means they are "enthusiastic about, and committed to their work and contribute to their organization in a positive manner.

Nearly twice as many people hate their jobs as love their jobs.

And if the standards of the culture were wrong then, I realized, they can be wrong now. You can have everything a person could possibly need by the standards of our culture - but those standards can badly misjudge what a human actually needs in order to have a good or even a tolerable life.

For millennia, humans have talked about something called the Golden Rule. It's the idea that you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Tim, I think, has discovered something we should call the I-Want-Golden-Things Rule.17 The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be.

the people with boring, low-status jobs just wanted to collapse in front of the television when they got home. Why would that be? "When work is enriching, life is fuller, and that spills over into the things you do outside work," he said to me. But "when it's deadening," you feel "shattered at the end of the day, just shattered.

To have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it," Mihaly has explained. "We also need a positive goal; otherwise why keep going?

different study of office workers in the U.S. found most of them never get an hour of uninterrupted work in a typical day. If this goes on for months and years, it scrambles your ability to figure out who you are and what you want. You become lost in your own

So, to find flow, you need to choose one single goal; make sure your goal is meaningful to you; and try to push yourself to the edge of your abilities.

The best experiences in life that I had, when I thought back on it, came from times when I had been in the mountains climbing…climbing and doing something really kind of difficult and dangerous—but within the scope of what I could do.

When you are approaching death, I thought, you won't think about your reinforcements—the likes and retweets—you'll think about your moments of flow.

Primera causa: desconexión de un trabajo con sentido

Human beings only become addicted when they cannot find anything better to live for and when they desperately need to fill the emptiness that threatens to destroy them,

In general, we want to take the easy way out, but what makes us happy is doing the thing that's a little bit difficult.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow.