Quotes about Fulfillment

If you work to understand what job you are being hired to do, both professionally and in your personal life, the payoff will be enormous.

This may sound counter intuitive, but I deeply believe that the path to happiness in a relationship is not just about finding someone who you think is going to make you happy. Rather, the reverse is equally true; the path to happiness is about finding someone who you want to make happy, someone whose happiness is worth devoting yourself to.

I had thought the destination was what was important, but it turned out it was the journey. It

Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

The pleasure principle is an artificial creation of psychology. Pleasure is not the goal of our aspirations, but the consequence of attaining them.

The truth-that love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I worked—and behold, duty was joy.

When man can't find meaning in his life, he distracts himself with pleasure.

When man can't find meaning in his life, he distracts himself with pleasure.

We give life meaning not only through our actions but also through loving and, finally, through suffering. Because how human beings deal with the limitation of their possibilities regarding how it affects their actions and their ability to love, how they behave under these restrictions—the way in which they accept their suffering under such restrictions—in all of this they still remain capable of fulfilling human values.

If we were immortal, we could legitimately postpone every action forever. [...] But in the face of death as absolute finis to our future and boundary to our possibilities, we are under the imperative of utilizing our lifetimes to the utmost, not letting the singular opportunities - whose finite sum constitutes the whole of life - pass by unused.