fulfillment quotes

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

I’m happy about working; I’m happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It’s the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

My life has been very full.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I’d become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.