Quotes about Fulfillment
Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?
— Edith Schaeffer
Be satisfied with the fact that although your art or talent may never be accepted by the world as anything 'great', and may never be your career, it can be used to enrich your day by day life:enrich it for you, and for the people with whom you live.... and come to the recognition of the fact that it is important for you to BE creative in this area to the extent of your talent: important for you as a person who IS a creative creature.
— Edith Schaeffer
Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one.
— Edith Schaeffer
People so often look with longing into a daydream future, while ignoring the importance of the present. We are all in danger of thinking, "Some day I shall be fulfilled. Some day I shall have the courage to start another life which will develop my talent," without ever considering the very practical use of that talent today in a way which will enrich other people's lives, develop the talent, and express the fact of being a creative creature.
— Edith Schaeffer
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
— Edmund Burke
One of the greatest sources of energy is pride in what you are doing.
— Anonymous
Next year in Jerusalem!
— Anonymous
As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
— Anonymous
Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money.
— Anonymous
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
— Anonymous
I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.
— Anonymous
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.
— Anonymous