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Quotes about Fulfillment

become good. It would become beautiful. It would make us happy, and not with the future happiness of political promising. It would make us happy as soon as we began to do it.
— Wendell Berry
He said that when we finally did get the farm paid for we could tell everybody to go to hell. That was what he lived for, to own his farm without having to say please or thank you to a living soul.
— Wendell Berry
One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours—all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
— William Faulkner
God grant you your quota of smiles.
— William Goldman
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
— William James
the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease
— William James
The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
— William James
If you attempt to build intimacy with a person before you've done the hard work of becoming a whole and healthy person, every relationship will be an attempt to complete the hole in your heart and the lack of what you don't have. That relationship will end in disaster.
— Chip Ingram
Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.
— Chris Fabry
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Developing a life in God's presence above all else is the only way to fulfill our God-given destinies. Keys to our callings are released when we spend time there.
— Heidi Baker
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
— Henry David Thoreau