Fulfilling Life Quotes

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance. ~ Hugh Mackay

Dare for a greater life, you will get it. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling. ~ Zig Ziglar

In his law-fulfilling life, curse-bearing death, and death-defeating resurrection, Jesus has entirely accomplished for sinners what sinners could never in the least do for themselves. The banner under which the Christian lives reads, It is finished. ~ Tullian Tchividjian

Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life. ~ Nathaniel Branden

Secular humanists should recognize those forms of religion as allies in the struggle for human advancement. They should also learn from them, as they try to build a fully secular world in which people can have the opportunity to live rich and fulfilling lives. ~ Philip Kitcher

These are folks that keep people out of hospitals, out of emergency rooms, out of nursing homes. And not only that, they help people achieve more fulfilling lives. ~ Atul Gawande

It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang" - I've never reached that point in my life. ~ Frederick Buechner

I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy. ~ Clayton Christensen

You're demanding when you want to be … And you're so brilliant and attractive; it becomes maddening" – my heart pumps faster – "that someone like you exists, and that you should be here in our bedroom, that we should share a bedroom at all – it's unreal and the most fulfilling life I could ever think to dream." I whisper. "I'm tragically in love with you, and I wouldn't want it any other way ~ Krista Ritchie

I'm glad folks think I look different, I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows. ~ Renee Zellweger

Reading a book is like living a deep and fulfilling life. Watching a movie is like being a paralyzed person: watching others live their lives while you observe from the sidelines. ~ Charbel Tadros

More of life seems to live inside us than out. Happiness is found when you connect both of them. ~ Wes Adamson

In order to live a fulfilling life, you must do as much (if not more) for yourself as you do for others. Sometimes we spend so much time caring for the next person we neglect to invest in ourselves. Remind yourself every day: Your needs, your aspirations, your success, and your goals also matter. It's ok to be a shoulder, cheerleader, friend and support system; but remember, you deserve as good as you give. ~ Liz Faublas

I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure. ~ Marc Faber

The world gives us PLENTY of opportunities to strengthen our patience. While this truth can definitely be challenging, this is a good thing. Patience is a key that unlocks the door to a more fulfilling life. It is through a cultivation of patience that we become better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, good friends, and a live a happier life. ~ Steve Maraboli

Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions. ~ Alan Keyes

When relying solely on ego, we are given many messages that are contrary to the achievement of that happy and fulfilling life that most of us actually desire. ~ Taite Adams

So you ask yourself: Am I willing to take responsibility for my life, in word and in deed? If not, your chances of living a rich and fulfilling life are almost zero. If so, you have the potential for a joyous journey ahead. ~ Eric Greitens

Remember this: Now is the only time you have. When God created the universe, it was now. You can't say to creation and energy, "I'll do it later, not now." Later doesn't exist. Creation doesn't know anything but now. Whenever you get around to doing what you want to do, it will be now. The things you need to do to live a happier, more fulfilling life-the only time you can possible start doing them is now. ~ Bernie Siegel

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one. ~ Eknath Easwaran

Asking "Who can I help today?" will always lead to a more fulfilling life than "How can I make more money today? ~ Joshua Becker

I have read your memory and your thoughts. It seems you are trying to restrain your power to live a life without it. In order to live a more fulfilling life. You believe interpersonal relationships are more important than psychic power. This is the thought of a blessed one. You underestimate the world.
You live isolated from all the bad in this world. Subconsciously you know you can solve your problems with your power, you always have a last resort. I have created this world in accord with your fragile and weak mind. However, do not misunderstand my intention. None of this is your fault. You've done nothing wrong. ~ ONE

Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.' He looked at me and continued. 'The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous.' His piercing blue eyes looked into mine.' Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life. ~ Bryce Courtenay

A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door. ~ Joan Lunden

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Who are you? Be it. What do you love to do? Do it. Who do you love? Love them. The result: a fulfilling life. ~ Zoe McLellan

I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life. ~ Fred Kavli

Most people do not understand the process of achieving and fulfilling a dream ~ Sunday Adelaja

Laws are the foundation on which a fulfilling life is built for a community. Laws are the answer. ~ Amish Tripathi

A significant percentage of the millions of students who will graduate schools today are desperately searching for the one thing. But rather than help them discover the secrets that could launch them into a successful and fulfilling life, many universities simply keep the addiction going – capitalizing on that need in order to keep tuition coming in and filling seats. ~ Phil Cooke

She looked at me – I was crying, though she was not – and she took on a tone of gentle reprimand. 'Don't think you're paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life,' she said to me. 'The best tribute you can pay to me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have. ~ Andrew Solomon

Time creates Let time work at your projects. ~ Rossana Condoleo

It's a really fulfilling life if you can make your job what you love doing. ~ Sam Palladio

The purpose of God for creating earth can be seen as an assignment which he requires everyone he created to fulfil ~ Sunday Adelaja

Own it! The truth is...unhappiness stems from our propensity to blame other people. If you can accept that you are completely responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become then you are on your way to a fulfilling life. Let no one hinder you from achieving that. ~Jason Versey ~ Jason Versey

The ill or impaired may, in the sense of fulfilling life, be far more free than healthy people. ~ Arthur W. Frank

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children. ~ Judy Blume

We can't script every detail of our lives. But we can solve the riddle
of fulfillment when we plan ahead while simultaneously embracing
the surprises of each moment. ~ Gina Greenlee

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives. ~ Tom Bosley

The choice for devoted Latter-day Saint women is not just to simply go forward and try to be happy and create a fulfilling life. As women of covenant our goal is to go forward and develop stron testimonies and nurturing and caring hearts that will prepare us for our roles as mothers in eternity. With that end in mind, I determined to go on happily, to become 'anxiously engaged in a good cause' (D&C 58:27), and to believe that the rest would take care of itself. ~ Kristen McMain Oaks

Many of the gay Christians I was in conversation with were not demanding wholesale movement to a fully affirming and inclusive stance. There were those who were uncertain of such a stance even for themselves. What they did desire was space, a safe space without judgment, accusation, condemnation, assumption, and rejection. They desired a generous spaciousness to embrace authentic faith while engaging the quest for an honest, godly, and fulfilling life as a gay person. ~ Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

Most of us try to use our emotions and thoughts to lead a fulfilling life, which, for want of awareness, fails to be as fulfilling as we want it to be. ~ Prem Jagyasi

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form. ~ Graeme Murphy

My parting shot tonight, let not politics engage you away from living. It is through living that we find true joy and fulfilling life. Simple things in life define who God is in our lives. ~ DON SANTO

Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life. ~ Ralph Marston

It dawned on him - as it hadn't before; he was dense, he was slow - that his parents were five hundred miles away. They could make him come home, they could refuse to pay the portion of his tuition they'd agreed to pay, but they couldn't see his jeans. "Understood," he said. ~ Chad Harbach

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size ... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life, ~ Satoru Iwata

My character was tested because I didn't think I would have to compromise so much of who I was as a person. I changed so much because I gave so much of me and lost myself in the process. Sadly, when I lost myself, I did not notice. It just happened; it was more of a habit I formed to adjust. I was damaged from the inside out because my life wasn't mine anymore. I was someone I had to be; not who I wanted to be. I wasn't someone that made "me" happy. I made everyone else happy, and it wasn't enough.

Losing yourself is scary. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Dance while you can move your being. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We´re two, two for everything, for love, life, for a fight and pain, for hours of happiness. Two for wins and losses, for life and for death - TWO! ~ Karel Capek

Life goes nowhere. We are the ones who have tried to get somewhere and made a mess of life. ~ Marty Rubin

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. ~ Julien Green

when you are in pain __ no one can feel this better than you .this is not a shame to be in emotional pain.you love someone or hate __ not in your hand . a part of life to going through pain. pain may cause silent killer of your health .
what you must do _ focus on your pain .realizing helps . then you would feel at a point _you have to get out of it. then the moment you focus what can destruct your emotional pain .music ,screaming ,going out,writing, anything ,you may pick up.
one last thing __ never lie to self. shoot direct question and answer to self . create hobbies .
then focus on yourself. look how brilliant you are . how unique you are . then admit ,no power can hurt you so much that has nothing to do with your well being . now _ reject . start to reject . once you understand your pain, the cause , how to keep self safety , ___you are powerful to reject pain slowly . ~ Litymunshi

Who are we without our memories? ~ Marta Acosta

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they're taught in academia, and (2) doesn't mix in the hard-to-measure stuff that may be more important. That is a mistake I've tried all my life to avoid, and I have no regrets for having done that. ~ Charlie Munger

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them
the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind
should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

The best sex of my life has officially wiped me out, every muscle a relaxed mess of orgasmy uselessness. He breathes hard, staring at me, then wipes his mouth and hops off the bed, walking bare assed out of the room. ~ Alessandra Torre

I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to survive, backstrom really wears his heart on his sleeve and his life is unraveling ... I would much rather hang out with that person than a slick procedural detective who has all the answers ... it's human, it's frail, it's interesting. ~ Rainn Wilson

Sometimes I think there's someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there's an angel - or, more likely, a demon - assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. Well, today it got an A plus. ~ Michael Thomas Ford

They embraced in parting. There were tears in the merchant's eyes:
"I do not like parting."
"Life consists of partings," said Arseny. "But you can rejoice more fully in companionship when you remember that."
"But I would (the merchant Vladislav blew his nose) gather up all the good people I've met and never let them go."
"I think then they would quickly become mean," smiled Ambrogio. (p. 238) ~ Evgenij Vodolazkin

The world where you will go hand in hand with the Flower Maiden has neither perfect happiness, nor joy, nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness, nor misery, nor death..." -Lord Darcia ~ BONES

My life and art have not been separated. They have been together. ~ Eva Hesse

I'm scared I'll never stop comparing my life without him to how my life was when I was with him. ~ Colleen Hoover

My life has been fortunate in one glad way: I have lived mostly in the country and worked in the woods. For every bad man and woman I have ever known, I have met, lived with, and am intimately acquainted with an overwhelming number of thoroughly clean and decent people who still believe in God and cherish high ideals, and it is UPON THE LIVES OF THESE THAT I BASE WHAT I WRITE. To contend that this does not produce a picture true to life is idiocy. It does. It produces a picture true to ideal life; to the best that good men and good women can do at level best. ~ Gene Stratton-Porter

All my life, I kept waiting for things to get better. For the bright promise of mañana. But a funny thing happened while I was waiting for the world to change, Chabele: It didn't. Because I didn't change it. ~ Alan Gratz

But with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself. ~ John Updike

Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety. ~ Bryant McGill

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque. ~ Denzel Washington

This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life. ~ Gail Sheehy

Yet this was not in fact the strategy that Powers chose. A simpler soul in his position might have seen only a binary decision to make - to talk or not to talk. But the "deluded jerk from Virginia" assumed from the start that if he was to have any chance of saving his life, his honor, and the U-2's most precious secrets, he would have to use his wits. He ~ Giles Whittell

We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits. ~ Rebecca West

It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart. ~ Vanessa Minnillo

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well. ~ Abraham Lincoln

It's not just Ethiopia, but Africa in general - most of the media concentrates on what's not going well. But there is so much beauty there. When you go, it changes everything. It changes you, your life, and the way you see things. The challenge is changing the image of Africa that's been anchored in people for years now. ~ Liya Kebede

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life. ~ Alistair Begg

Any film is at least better than real life. ~ Quentin Crisp

Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural wish to make them sinless and infallible, we suddenly realize that we have obtained bloodless, sentimental and false personalities incapable of both good and evil. Separating them from mother Earth, we separate them from life, and where is no life, there is no virtue either. ~ Alija Izetbegovic