Quotes about Fulfillment

Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others.

56. Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

The aim of a ship's captain is a successful voyage; a doctor's, health; a general's, victory. So the aim of our ideal statesman is the citizens' happy life--that is, a life secure in wealth, rich in resources, abundant in renown, and honorable in its moral character. That is the task which I wish him to accomplish--the greatest and best that any man can have.

Potential has a shelf life.

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

If there were no emptiness, there would be no life.

He got his driver's license, he got his high school diploma, he got his university degree. He got a worried little furrow between his eyes. He did what he thought was expected of him, and brought the official pieces of paper home to her like a cat bringing dead mice. Now it's as if he's given up because he doesn't know what else to bring; he's run out of ideas.

Each twinge, each murmur of slight pain, ripples of sloughed-off matter, swellings and diminishings of tissue, the droolings of the flesh, these are signs, these are the things I need to know about. Each month I watch for blood, fearfully, for when it comes it means failure. I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own.

Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you'll never know true fulfillment.

It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.