Quotes About Fulfilment

The thing I like most of all is personal achievement--not achievement for the world's applause, but achievement for my own delight.

I don't like the word purpose. It implies that somewhere in the future I will find something that will make me happy, and that until then, I will be unhappy. People fool themselves into thinking that the currency of unhappiness will buy them happiness. That we have to "pay our dues," go on some sort of ride, and then get dropped off at a big location called our "purpose," where now we can be happy.

The definition of "success" for me is: "Is today successful?

'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it's an incomparable experience.

Satisfaction is a major player in the happiness stakes.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

If I never do another show, I'll die a happy man.

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

In this being may our treatise find its end and fulfillment.

FUTURE--Unfulfilled Prophecy. The Requirements of a Genuine Prediction are five in number: 1. It must have been made known PRIOR to its fulfillment. 2. It must be beyond all HUMAN FORESIGHT. 3. It must give DETAILS. 4. A SUFFICIENT TIME MUST ELAPSE BETWEEN ITS PUBLICATION AND FULFILMENT TO EXCLUDE THE PROPHET, OR ANY INTERESTED PARTY, FROM FULFILLING IT. 5. There must be a CLEAR AND EVIDENT FULFILMENT OF THE PROPHECY.

We should always remember that beyond a certain point, hygiene factors such as money, status, compensation, and job security are much more a by-product of being happy with a job rather than the cause of it.

one of his key ideas: Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.

la verdadera autorrealización sólo es el efecto profundo del cumplimiento acabado del sentido de la vida.

You don't retire from a job (which may have become stale) but to an activity that is meaningful to you.

If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.

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

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Reading fiction as you commute to a job you don't like will make you feel somewhat more fulfilled; being in the right job will make you feel incredible.

Is there anything that gives you a deeper sense of satisfaction?

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, "Wow, that was an adventure", not, "Wow, I sure felt safe." - Tom Preston-Werner

Its other name was Satis, which is Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three -- or all one to me -- for enough....but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house, could want nothing else.

It is only human for physicists to be disappointed that decades of preparation have not yet led to experimental discoveries. Yet nature is under no obligation to reward every generation of physicists with another helping of it's juiciest secrets, along with the fulfilment that also follows, not to mention the approbation.

Es más fácil asumir la muerte cuando uno ha podido llevar a cabo las propias aspiraciones.