Quotes About Fulfilment

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, "New England Reformers

Feeling right" is about living the life that's right for you—in occupation, location, marital status, and so on. It's also about virtue: doing your duty, living up to the expectations you set for yourself. For some people, "feeling right" can also include less elevated considerations: achieving a certain job status or material standard of living.

Dom zijn, egoïstisch en gezond, ziehier wat je nodig hebt om gelukkig te zijn. Maar als het eerste ontbreekt, dan is alles verloren.

The first day of 'The Town' was one of the most satisfying days of my career.

I wouldn't have traded my career path for anything.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted.

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

I'm just trying to keep my customer satisfied.

A little beaver doesn't satisfy you for long.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

There are a lot of bitter people out there who have got jobs that they hate and the key to life for me is doing something you love doing.

I just love where I am right now in my career.

My life is full, and I love it. Acting is the frosting on the cake for me.

I'll be a little bummed out if I make it to my 70s and didn't have a kid. I have two dogs and I know how much I love them. I would like to love and raise a kid.

Just making 'Black Rainbow' was like my minimum requirement before death, so that I could die with some honour and not in total shame.

I'm not like my siblings, who are musical but can turn their hands to other professions! I'd always wanted to be involved in music - I'm a great believer in doing things that fulfil you.

It must be amazing to end each day consumed with something other than disappointment at yourself and the world.

Faayalo zweegbe. —Sólo aquel que va en busca del agua puede romper el cántaro.

Most people who choose to do something on the basis of what other people need make themselves misera­ble.

Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.