Quotes about Fulfillment

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using—you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?