#fulfillment

Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going. ↗

— Deborah Day

#happiness #happy #purpose #well-being #life

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you." He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt, for he knew he could never explain exactly why the idea came to him. "It's the painting of a dutiful daughter," he said eventually, looking at her cautiously to see her reaction. "You want to please. You are always aware of what the person looking at this picture will think of it. Because of that you've missed something important. Does that make sense?" She thought, then nodded. "All right," she said grudgingly and with just a touch of despair in her voice. "You win." Julien grunted. "Have another go, then. I shall come back and come back until you figure it out." "And you'll know?" "You'll know. I will merely get the benefit of it. ↗

— Iain Pears

#creativity #daughters #duty #expectation #fulfillment

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside. ↗

— Peter Deunov

#enlightenment #happiness #inner-peace #self-fulfillment #wisdom

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fulfillment #humankind #potential #marketing

When we give freely, we feel full and complete; when we withhold, we feel small, petty, impotent, and lacking. We are meant to learn this great truth, that giving fulfills us, while withholding and trying to get causes us to feel empty and even more needy. This truth runs counter to our programming, which drives us to try to get something from others to fulfill our neediness, only to end up even more needy, grasping, lacking, and unfulfilled. ↗

— Gina Lake

#giving #giving-love #happiness #inspirational-attitude #love

In this America, too, the Christian teaching that every human soul is unique and precious has been stressed, by the prophets of self-fulfillment and gurus of self-love, at the expense of the equally important teaching that every human soul is fatally corrupted by original sin. Absent the latter emphasis, religion becomes a license for egotism and selfishness, easily employed to justify what used to be considered deadly sins. The result is a society where pride becomes 'healthy self-esteem', vanity becomes 'self-improvement', adultery becomes 'following your heart', greed and gluttony become 'living the American dream'. ↗

— Ross Douthat

#self-help #dreams

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

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#different #fulfillment #gotten #happiness #just

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#fulfillment #increases #postponed

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#american life #artful #conceived #effect #fulfillment

There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get. ↗

— Kim Gruenenfelder

#getting-older #life-goals #p #life