Quotes About Fulfillment

You didn't fight so hard to survive – and then do nothing with your life.

You give your best because that's the only way to enjoy your work.

When you get a promise from God, it is worth just as much as a fulfillment.

We know how faith, like water, can exercise the irresistible power it has and be gathered up and accumulated, until the stream can rush in full force; likewise, there must often be a heaping up of prayer, until God sees that the measure is full, and the answer comes.

The doing of God's will would then be, instead of exhausting, our meat and drink, our nourishment and refreshment and strength. The LORD is good unto them that

A vessel must be empty if it is to be filled, and if we are to be filled with the life of God we must be utterly empty of self.

In human flesh man was to be the embodiment and fulfillment of God's desires.

Remember that Christ works in and through you, and provides all that God desires for you and all that you need.

what do I want from life? And I say: "Less!

Be in love, you will be happy.

Just for the record, happiness is not bullshit. - Arthur Less (character)

But once you've actually been in love, you can't live with "will do"; it's worse than living with yourself.

It is a bad musical, but like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do it's job perfectly well.

It is a surprise to me to like myself; among all the elaborate possibilities I contemplated for my future, that never figured. My hard-won contentment reflects the simple truth that inner peace often hinges on outer peace. In the gnostic gospel of St. Thomas, Jesus says, "If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.

I told her that what was most important to me was not whether she loved a man or a woman, but that she loved and was loved well—that she experience passion, and the wonderful surprise of finding that someone feels about you as strongly as you do about them, lucky and full-hearted.

She looked at me – I was crying, though she was not – and she took on a tone of gentle reprimand. 'Don't think you're paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life,' she said to me. 'The best tribute you can pay to me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.

Forge meaning, build identity and then invite the world to share your joy

No estamos deprimidos por haber quedado apartados de lo que queremos, sino porque nos hemos fusionado con eso que queremos.

The full story is what you get told only if and when your work, and with it your existence, are no longer required.

To live fully, in these transitory lives on this fragile earth, in such a way that we somehow participate in the glory of God—that would be flourishing. And that is what we are meant to do.

if the work of creating consistently leaves us depressed or drained, it is likely that we have somehow missed the path.

We only get one life to live. Wouldn't it be better spent enjoying and serving the world God made rather than a glowing screen?

The right question is whether, when we undertake the work we believe to be our vocation, we experience the joy and humility that come only when God multiplies our work so that it bears thirty, sixty and a hundredfold beyond what we could expect from our feeble inputs.

Why is power a gift? Because power is for flourishing. When power is used well, people and the whole cosmos come more alive to what they were meant to be. And flourishing is the test of power.