Quotes about Fulfillment

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

There ain't but one life worth livin and I was born to it.

And that would be my life. And I would be happy.

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful books, and be rich with them; she wanted to see beautiful things, and have the joy of them for ever; she wanted to know big, free people; and there remained always the want she could put no name to? It was so difficult. There were so many things, so much to meet and surpass. And one never knew where one was going.

It all had to be squeezed and squeezed again, to provide a thrill, to provide enjoyment. What did people mean, with their simply determined enjoying of themselves?

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

The salt, bitter passion of the sea, its indifference to the earth, its swinging, definite motion, its strength, its attack, and its salt burning, seemed to provoke her to a pitch of madness, tantalizing her with vast suggestions of fulfilment.

You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.

The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.