Fulfilling Quotes - Page 14

• Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Reflection, People

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• [Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Jeannette Walls

  Optimistic, Self, Optimism

  "The optimism bias". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Positive, Believe, Positivity

  Twitter post from May 05, 2011

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• Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.

  Bruce Willis

  Daughter, Dad, Kids

  "Bruce Willis On Aging And Fatherhood The Second Time Around". Interview with Richard Aldhous, www.everythingzoomer.com. June 24, 2013.

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• There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

  Dan Barker

  Joy, Doubt, Mind

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• [Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.

  George Washington

  Country, Land, Promise

  Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Loss, Winning, Player

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interveiw, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Acceptance, Self

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.32

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• The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.

  Daniel Goleman

  Self, Worry, Tasks

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• The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Important

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• Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep you from becoming a more fully realized person? Do you feel ashamed of what you have to do at work? All too often, the answer to such questions is yes. Yet it does not have to be like that. Work can be one of the most joyful, most fulfilling aspects of life. Whether it will be or not depends on the actions we collectively take.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Jobs, Business, Work

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.9, Penguin

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• Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Future, Past, Views

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.9, New World Library

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• Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Live Life, Criticize

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• The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don't expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don't.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Men, Self, Childhood

  Sheryl Sandberg (2013). “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”, p.22, Random House

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• For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires.

  Abbi Glines

  Important, Desire, Want

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• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

  Rollo May

  Emotional, Goal, Joy

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Art, Prayer

  "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

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• Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

  Liz Murray

  Mother, Dream, One Day

  "Liz Murray: 'My parents were desperate drug addicts. I'm a Harvard graduate'" by Joanna Walters, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2010.

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• 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

  Meaningful, People, Church

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• Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

  Alain de Botton

  Knowing, Exciting, Edges

  Twitter post from Nov 14, 2014

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• You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling.

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  Ram Dass

  Moving, Cutting, Mind

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• You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.

  Brian Tracy

  Commitment, Promise, Quality

  Brian Tracy (1996). “Advanced Selling Strategies: The Proven System of Sales Ideas, Methods, and Techniques Used by Top Salespeople”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• The Sicilian Defence was our attempt at quickly fulfilling our contractual obligation after I Robot, Pyramid and Eve had been delivered. The album was rejected by Arista, not surprisingly, and we then renegotiated our deal for the future and the next album, The Turn of a Friendly Card. The Sicilian Defence album was never released and never will be, if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

  Alan Parsons

  Pyramids, Friendly, Robots

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• After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.

  Bruno Bauer

  Order, Noble, World

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• No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.

  Thomas Boston

  Grace, Deeds, Covenant

  Thomas Boston (1767). “A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: Wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it; its parts ... and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered. Together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, and the way of instating sinners therein ...”, p.91

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