Quotes about Fulfillment
What God asks us to do, He equips us to do.
— Dutch Sheets
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order or in a worldly profession.
— Edith Stein
She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.
— Edith Wharton
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
— Edith Wharton
Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape, Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by Percy Grice, dull but undeniably rich, on the bare chance that he might ultimately do her the honor of boring her for life?
— Edith Wharton
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.
— Edith Wharton
It was an observation they had made in her earliest youth—Undine never wanted anything long, but she wanted it "right off." And until she got it the house was uninhabitable.
— Edith Wharton
Our goal is to love people more than need them. We are overflowing pitchers, not leaky cups.
— Edward Welch
But the point is that we live in a culture that idolizes happiness, and if we idolize happiness, it will always elude us.
— Edward Welch
When you have to manage the world, please everyone, earn more than you did last year, and work off five pounds, you will be driven. If not, you run the risk of being un-American or even un-Christian because our economy and churches rely on such people. Even when paralyzed by circumstances, a stressed person is a driven person.
— Edward Welch
They are God's liturgy, prepared for you in advance.
— Edward Welch
An achievement is bondage.It obliges one to a higher achievement.
— Albert Camus