Quotes About Fulfilment

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.

The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.

Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.

I was secretly convinced that I would truly exist only at the moment when my signature, Elena Greco, appeared in print...

The oddest consequence of Freud's theory is its implication that, if total sexual fulfilment were possible by means of complete adaptation to reality, the arts, including music, would become otiose. I have discussed the unsatisfactory nature of this conclusion elsewhere.

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

India has a very young population which is comfortable doing business on a screen than do it one on one with a banking executive. They want quick fulfilment of desires, and may not have the time to go to a bank to get things done. Many of them are comfortable working from home.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

If I die tomorrow I could die happy, because this feels like possibly the biggest thing I'll ever do in my career, and I'm fine with that. I get to be in a movie with Gaga.

If you do a scene the right way, you can go home at the end of the day and really feel like you accomplished something.

I feel we have achieved the goals that we set out to achieve.

I'm never content, and I don't know if that's a curse or a good thing.

Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal,  and yet if  a melody has not  reached its end, it has not reached its goal.

Every human being was wired with the desire for happiness. And we will try different things all in the pursuit of that feeling.

It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.

I used to think that success was being the number one, being everywhere, being the star, and nowadays, I think that success is to make big things happen.

The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying. Something

We don't have to circle the world in order to find beauty and fulfilment. After all, most of living has to happen in the mind. And, to quote one anonymous sage from my trivet, "The world is only the size of each man's head.

The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying.

We act in order to express our fulfillment, not to acquire it.