Quotes about Fulfillment
The way to "victory" is not in trying to overcome your dispiriting emotions directly but in building a deeper sense of safety and at-homeness and a more incarnate knowledge that you are deeply loved. Then, little by little, you will stop giving so much power to strangers. Do not be discouraged. Be sure that God will truly fulfill all your needs. Keep remembering that. It will help you not to expect that fulfillment from people who you already know are incapable of giving it.
— Henri Nouwen
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
— Henry David Thoreau
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
— Henry David Thoreau
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
— Henry David Thoreau
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you want to be happy, be!
— Henry David Thoreau
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
— Henry David Thoreau
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
— Henry David Thoreau
If I should sell my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.
— Henry David Thoreau
for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly;
— Henry David Thoreau
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau