Quotes About Fulfillment

The happier you are, the less you need.

Life was small but good. (15)

One of the best things about sex with a Banshee, however, is that she will make her needs known freely.

I don't know about happily ever after...but I know about happily.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

Be patient. Life will give you what you need (to write your story).

We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.

We were all created incomplete and will find no rest until we satisfy the deepest hunger and thirst within us. You've tried to satisfy it in your own way. I see that in your eyes, too, as I've seen it in so many others. And yet, though you deny it with your last breath, your soul yearns for God

She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regret and grief, to ponder endlessly what she might have done differently?

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Tenía una cara triste y deliciosa, con detalles luminosos —los ojos luminosos y la luz apasionada de la boca— y había en su voz una emoción que los hombres que la habían querido no podían olvidar: una vehemencia cantarina, un «óyeme» susurrado, la promesa de que acababa de vivir momentos felices y vibrantes y que momentos felices y vibrantes esperaban en la próxima hora.

contentment has to do with what we accept, what we expect and what we measure our current situations against.

what determined people's happiness wasn't their physical conditions or capabilities but what they paid attention to, what they emphasized, what they accomplished within the possibilities available to them.

The author makes a tacit deal with the reader. You hand them a backpack. You ask them to place certain things in it — to remember, to keep in mind — as they make their way up the hill. If you hand them a yellow Volkswagen and they have to haul this to the top of the mountain — to the end of the story — and they find that this Volkswagen has nothing whatsoever to do with your story, you're going to have a very irritated reader on your hands.

We should never measure our God-given assignment against someone else's assignment.

So what do you do while you're living? Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is one of the secrets by which we shape the fulfillment of our designs. The something more assumes amplified power with people who cannot give it a name or who (most often the case) do not even suspect its existence. Most people only react unconsciously to such hidden forces. Thus, we have only to call a calculated something more into existence, define it and give it shape, then people will follow.

The Zensunni approach to birth, he said, urging her even faster, is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

Shield!" the old woman snapped. "You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.

Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.

we are so money-rich and so life-poor.