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Quotes About Fulfilment

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
~ Seneca the Younger
Unfortunately, many of us often spend our lives doing what we were trained to do. Some do what they were asked to do. And most of us do what others need us to do. And all the while, we wonder why the feeling of fulfillment eludes us.
~ T.D. Jakes
But if it's in fact true that you have no purpose in mind for me, then that sense of fulfillment has arisen solely from within myself.
~ Ted Chiang
If someone is a known spectacular quantity, then they're probably working in a job and very happy with that.
~ John Collison
Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
~ Beth Orton
When I sit down to eat, the greatest spice of all is hunger.
~ John Cooper Clarke
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
~ Wilfred Grenfell
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there? STRAUSS: No, I don't. RICHIE: Nothing. Not one thing. What was at the top was all the experiences that you had to get there.
~ Neil Strauss
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
~ Nicholas Sparks
As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
~ Rickie Lee Jones
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
~ Julius Caesar
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.
~ Christopher Hitchens
One of the drawbacks of sleeping with whores, he thought lazily. You got what you paid for, and not a goddamn thing more.
~ Kristin Hannah
You can't buy happiness
~ Kurt Cobain
Not a bad life's work.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Even if this was the only thing I ever did in my whole life, it would be worth having a life just to do this." We
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
It's different. When you make a house good and strong because it's your house, a place you made, a place you're proud of, it's not at all the same as making it glow for someone who ordered you to do it.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
~ Gerry Adams
To freely bloom — that is my definition of success.
~ Gerry Spence
La felicità non è che il compimento
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.
~ Gina Greenlee
the complete fulfilment of the meaning of Christ's presence on earth. He planted the seeds and it is up to us to cultivate and gather the harvest, or else it will wither. "So from this day, we must decide not only our fate but our faith. Do we wish to be bureaucrats and remain behind these walls? To sit here and debate the finer points of theology while the sick are untended
~ Glenn Meade
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.
~ Jack London