Quotes About Fulfillment

In the new definition of success, building and looking after our financial capital is not enough. We need to do everything we can to protect and nurture our human capital.

To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving. These four pillars make up the four sections of this book.

Just as money can't buy happiness, neither can it buy time affluence.

Have you notices that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

It's not 'What do I want to do?', it's 'What kind of life do I want to have?' 

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. —FR. ALFRED D'SOUZA

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. —PAULO COELHO

I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all.

I asked her if she'd ever wanted children. She told me, "Everybody doesn't get everything." It sounded depressing to me at the time, a statement of defeat. Now admitting it seems like the obvious and essential work of growing up. Everybody doesn't get everything: as natural and unavoidable as mortality.

I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth anything for, was being a writer.

I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.

If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce contentment for you.

The happier we are, the more easily we draw to us everything we want. Every moment of every day, we are sending out energetic signals that are felt by the people around us. This explains why a desperate person draws to himself or herself more desperation, while a person who is already fulfilled becomes a magnet for greater fulfillment.

everything we've been through has been but preparation for finding our true love.

Life is short, so fall in love.

I'll never believe that money is everything.

Desire persuades us that if only we have a pleasant breath or if only we have that spacious feeling we had earlier, then we would be happy. But desire is insatiable. As soon as we get the object or experience we have been longing for, we move on to another desire, because the more we pursue desire, the more desire we experience.

The rising sun holds promise and is nothing more than a new opportunity for growth and discovery. It's a new start and anything can happen during those hours." "And the setting sun?" "The setting sun allows us to take a deep breath and bask in all the growth we've done throughout the day.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

One's country is wherever one does well.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.