Quotes about Fulfillment

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

Of course, being the synagogue president, for me it was a great blessing.

Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.

When you pull up roots in order to fulfill a divine destiny, there is not a sense of pain or loss. Rather, there is a great expectation for things to come.

If God be not enough for you, you will never have enough. Turn to him more, and know him better, if you would have a satisfied mind. -Directions Against Sinful Desires and Discontent.

Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now. This is a monumental change from the first half of life, so much so that it is almost the litmus test of whether you are in the second half of life at all.

The soul needs meaning as much as the body needs food.

The task of the second half of life is, quite simply, to find the actual contents that this container was meant to hold and deliver.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now.