Quotes about Fulfillment

To get what you want help others get what they want.

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.