Quotes about Fulfillment

If you are willing to give yourself away, you will have a much better life than you ever would have had trying to keep yourself.

Right believing leads to right living! Right believing leads to a life of peace, joy, and fulfillment!

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

We will do better in life if we desire to be useful rather than rich and famous.

Enjoying life begins with enjoying yourself. You're the one person you're never going to get away from, so you'd better learn to like yourself. It's impossible to love your life if you don't love yourself.

The only thing that truly satisfies the longing within is to know God more intimately today than we did yesterday.

I have now learned that we do not even know what "happy" is until we forget about ourselves, start focusing on others, and become generous givers.

God has graciously planned a good life for you to live.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

That divine rest on the seventh day of creation has made clear (a) that YHWH is not a workaholic, (b) that YHWH is not anxious about the full functioning of creation, and (c) that the well-being of creation does not depend on endless work.

we may consider the sabbath as an alternative to the endless demands of economic reality, more specifically the demands of market ideology that depend, as Adam Smith had already seen, on the generation of needs and desires that will leave us endlessly "rest-less," inadequate, unfulfilled, and in pursuit of that which may satiate desire.

I decided that my life was a gift from God, and my happiness was not dependent upon children, a husband, or any of the other things I had once thought were the source of happiness. It's about being able to accept the bitter and sweet parts of life.~Lois Troyer