Quotes about Fulfillment
All men die; few men ever really live.
— John Eldredge
A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough.
— John Eldredge
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
— John Eldredge
Most men think they are simply here on earth to kill time—and it's killing them.
— John Eldredge
Our lives are not a random series of events; they tell a Story that has meaning.
— John Eldredge
The great divide lies between men as lovers and men as consumers. Does he seek her out, long for her, because really he yearns for her to meet some need in his life—a need for validation (she makes him feel like a man), or mercy, or simply sexual gratification? That man is a Consumer, as my friend Craig calls him. The lover, on the other hand, wants to fight for her—he wants to protect her, make her life better, wants to fill her heart in every way he can.
— John Eldredge
Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.
— John Eldredge
You have only one life to live.It would be best to live your own.
— John Eldredge
When we taste something that we think is good, our longings cease to ache, for a minute, but later we find ourselves empty once more, needing to be filled again and again.
— John Eldredge
All of the happiness we have ever known and all of the happiness we hope to find is unreachable without a heart.
— John Eldredge
We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.
— John Eldredge
Something has gone wrong in us, very wrong indeed. So wrong that we have to be told that joy is found not in having another man's wife, but in having our own. But the point is not the law; the point is the joy.
— John Eldredge