Quotes about Fulfillment

People who seek to serve the community end up falsifying their work, she wrote, whether the work is writing a novel or baking bread, because they are not single- mindedly focused on the task at hand. But if you serve the work— if you perform each task to its utmost perfection— then you will experience the deep satisfaction of craftsmanship and you will end up serving the community more richly than you could have consciously planned.

But He, unshaken, with exultant voice cried, It is finished! and gave up the ghost. Finished--when men had thought it scarce begun.

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement? Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day — for a bit, anyhow.

Be satisfied with what you have.

So often multitudes of people gather around some broken cistern of this world, trying to satisfy their thirst for they know not what. They grumble about their troubles and complain about their lot, but how few of them run to the One who said, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water" (John 7:37—38).

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

It's very, very clear that you cannot move to the next phase unless the former one has been fully accomplished.

I want to have a diploma to hang on my wall. Even if I don't use it, I can say I graduated from UF.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

Considering all that's happened in my life, I feel like I'm a pretty levelheaded person that has remained happy and not let my shortcomings overtake the better part of me. I'm fulfilling the things I wanted to fulfill, and I'm still sane.

Can't always have life the way we want it. But there's always pizza.