Fulfillment Quotes - Page 17

• All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Joy, Mind, Consciousness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.31, New World Library

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• I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

  Norman Cousins

  Men, Color, Opposites

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

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• Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

  Richard J. Foster

  Loneliness, Solitude, Emptiness

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we understand that God has given us his law to aid us in guarding our souls, we see that the law is for our fulfillment, not for our limitation. The law reminds us that some things, some experiences, some relationships are sacred. When everything has been profaned, it is not just my freedom that has been lost- the loss is everyone's. God gave us the law to remind us of the sacredness of life, and our created legal systems only serve to remind us of the profane judgments we make.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Loss, Law, Soul

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• We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Men, Self

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.548, Best Books on

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• Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

  Marya Mannes

  Heart, Men, Miracle

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the fulfillment of that promise.

  Israel Zolli

  Jesus, Promise, Christianity

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• I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.

  Andy Grove

  Thinking, Technology, Knowing

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Perfection, Meditation, Joy

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• Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Flower, Perfection, Poise

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.232, Princeton University Press

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• Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

  Epictetus

  Live Life, Desire, Removal

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• All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Sports, Goal

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a mission no sacrifice is too great, not even the sacrifice of one's life. You are today the custodians of India's national honour and the embodiment of India's hopes and aspirations. So conduct yourself that your countrymen may bless you and posterity may be proud of you.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Army, Sacrifice, Mind

  Subhas Chandra Bose, Netaji Subhas Ashram (Suisa, India), Indian National Army (2004*). “Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and 21st century India: a special number on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose”

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• For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

  Adolf Hitler

  Ambition, Mean, People

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• There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

  Anthony de Mello

  Children, Powerful, Ambition

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.73, Image

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• Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Jobs, Helping Others, Joy

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• I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

  Martin Sheen

  Happiness, Real, Helping Others

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• The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to it's limited in voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Effort, Mind, Body

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• Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness." The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.

  Martin Seligman

  Happiness, Mean, Pride

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.60, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Faith, Powerful, Father Son

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• The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in the great classical liberal tradition that built the United States and bestowed on us the American heritage of individual liberty, a peaceful foreign policy, minimal government, and a free-market economy.

  Murray Rothbard

  Past, Government, Peaceful

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• Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

  Mario Batali

  Skills, Satisfaction, Restaurants

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• A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Natural, Contracts

  Lysander Spooner (1886). “A Letter to Grover Cleveland on His False Inaugural Address, the Usurpation and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People”

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• The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Beautiful, Structure, Amendments

  "The Nation Will Not Let Grameen Bank Be Snatched Away From Poor Women" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2013.

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