Quotes About Fulfillment

Great gifts and achievements early in life are simply not an insurance policy against suffering later on. On the contrary, studies show that people who have chased power and achievement in their professional lives tend to be unhappier after retirement than people who did not.

Only a shift to intrinsic goals will give you what you really want, and prepare you to get on the second curve, which requires relationships and sharing wisdom in the spirit of love.

To adopt parts of life that will make you happy, even if they don't make you special.

No one sighs regretfully on his deathbed and says, "I can't believe I wasted all that time with my wife and kids," "volunteering at the soup kitchen," or "growing in my spirituality." No one ever says, "I should have spent more time watching TV and playing Angry Birds on my phone." In my own life, nothing has given my life more meaning and satisfaction than my Catholic faith and the love of my

Your satisfaction is what you have, divided by what you want.

Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things, but paying attention to smaller and smaller things.

Do you dream about being remembered for your professional successes?

This is just an example of the age-old debate over two kinds of happiness that scholars refer to as hedonia and eudaimonia. Hedonia is about feeling good; eudaimonia is about living a purpose-filled life. In truth, we need both. Hedonia without eudaimonia devolves into empty pleasure; eudaimonia without hedonia can become dry.

The bad news is that in your fifties, you are still pretty wet behind the ears. But here's the good news: at age seventy-two, you still have half your work to go! Better take care of your health so you can write your best books into your eighties.

No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was there ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the streets and drifts across the dun-colored houses…. What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?

I am a very zone-specific person. For example, if I put all the pieces of a puzzle together, it's done, so there is nothing to look forward to.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

I'd get another job before I would play music I don't enjoy. But then, I'm really not qualified to do anything else.

By putting this music out, I think I genuinely eliminated 80 percent of the previous jobs I was qualified for.

Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.

As you get older, the quality of life is more important.

It is all about quality of life and being proud of what I do. I need me to be me.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

I don't chase money and I need a place where I'll have a good quality of life.

Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.