Sense Of Fulfillment Quotes

#1. There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.

Anne Lamott

#2. I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work.

Wilbur Smith

#3. Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hearts and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end.

Daisaku Ikeda

#4. I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment ... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

Andrew Weil

#5. A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.

Michael Josephson

#6. I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix ... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.

Burton Silverman

#7. I believe when you integrate charity in your craft and not just think of the fame and riches it would entitle you with, you will feel this true sense of fulfillment. Carry on your mission, of where God destined you to be- to use His gifts in good ways and not just for yourself.

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#8. People with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

Eric Hoffer

#9. I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.

F. W. De Klerk

#10. The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.

Ashley Montagu

#11. Making money may give a sense of Achievement. But making a difference will give a sense of Fulfillment. -RVM

R.v.m.

#12. I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.

Edward Norton

#13. At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that something might be.

Shusaku Endo

#14. I am who I am and there's nothing wrong with that. The days continue like they always have. They bring neither excessive desire nor despair. Nothing's changed. Yet I'm overwhelmed with a sense of fulfillment. I'm right here. You're over there. If I'm your savior, then you're mine

Ryohgo Narita

#15. Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.

Bob McDonnell

#16. Your success can't be measured by anyone else. You have to set your own goals and do what gives you a sense of fulfillment.

Rhondra O. Willis

#17. I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

Jami Attenberg

#18. Making money can give you a sense of achievement. But only Making a Difference will give you a sense of Fulfillment.

R.v.m.

#19. The sense of fulfillment is often hidden in acts of kindness

Todd Stocker

#20. With each stride, I realize I'm not so emotionally overwhelmed anymore. A sense of purpose and fulfillment has replaced my feelings of helplessness.

Sandra Vischer

#21. Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.

Abba Eban

#22. People in Haiti eat dirt because it gives their starving bodies a false sense of satisfaction. But mud pies don't fill. They merely mask real hunger. [...] I saw the mud pies as a metaphor for the life of any Christian who has ever looked to something or someone other than God for fulfillment.

Jennifer Dukes Lee

#23. Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.

Deepak Chopra

#24. Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

Dan Miller

#25. The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

T.D. Jakes

#26. In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you. If you insist on fulfillment in your work and perfection in achievement, you will become either inwardly deranged or outwardly unsettled.

Zicheng Hong

#27. Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

Zig Ziglar

#28. (People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#29. Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulfillment ignores.

Betty Friedan

#30. When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary.

Stephen Covey

#31. What empowerment is all about [is] finding something which infuses you with a sense of mission, with a passion for your life's work. I don't believe there is one path for women or one nature to fulfill. Real fulfillment, real empowerment is often different than we imagine and better than we plan.

Elizabeth Dole

#32. Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfillment, whatever it may be.

Mary Kay Ash

#33. We race towards something so amazing and precious it strikes me dumb with its immenseness. I lose every sense of myself, every thought; there's just emotion and utter fulfillment.

Aleksandr Voinov

#34. Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [ ... ] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense their growth has been arrested. Certainly many patients look to therapy to reinstitute the growth process. (33)

Alexander Lowen

#35. Love is the conversation between possible, searing disappointment and a profoundly imagined sense of arrival and fulfillment; how we shape that conversation is the touchstone of our ability to love in the real inhabited world.

David Whyte

#36. A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair.

Nathaniel Branden

#37. Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy.

John Boyega

#38. As a general rule, the less one's sense of life fulfillment, the greater one's death anxiety.

Irvin D. Yalom

#39. Sadhana is towards creating a sense of inner fulfillment, where there is no need to lean on anyone anymore.

Jaggi Vasudev

#40. Strong lives are those that are marked by a sense of purpose, connectedness, resilience, and fulfillment.

Jenifer Fox

#41. Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.

Daniel Klein

#42. When I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in their lives. I suggest they find a way to "give back" to the world in order to feel a sense of completeness ...

Harold S. Kushner

#43. If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?

Lauren B. Davis

#44. The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

Jay Saunders Redding