Quotes about Fulfillment

God wants to give us more than we ask for, not just fulfill our weak prayers. Joseph

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

God is so good. He knows where a person will be happy, where they can love and be loved, where heaven on earth is. Now I know why he put me near you.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody-I don't know who or what-maybe myself. I have feelings some days when there are scenes with a lot of responsiblity, and I'll wish, gee, if only I would have been a cleaning woman.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.