Fulfillment Quotes - Page 33

• The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone.  The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Life, Motivational, Dream

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• The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Effort, Desire, Riches

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.23, e-artnow

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• I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Motivational, Happiness, Success

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2009). “Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.

  Daniel Goleman

  Passion, Learning, People

  Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2013). “Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence”, p.99, Harvard Business Press

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• There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.

  Annalee Skarin

  Beautiful, Destiny, Men

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• It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion has found expression in the distinction between culture and civilization, according to which "culture" refers to some higher dimension of human autonomy and fulfillment, while "civilization" designates the realm of necessity, of socially necessary work and behavior, where man is not really himself and in his own element but is subject to heteronomy, to external conditions and needs.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Men, Civilization, Expression

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• If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Self Worth, Opinion

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• Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.

  Northrop Frye

  Children, Work, Thinking

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.145, University of Toronto Press

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• Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities--a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lonely, Integrity, Heart

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

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• I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition.

  Thomas Merton

  Mean, Exercise, Light

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Ascent to Truth”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Possibility

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• Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity.

  Herman Melville

  Country, War, Expectations

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.272

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• The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.

  William James

  Speak, Reaching, Ends

  William James (2003). “Essays in Radical Empiricism”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• All of Christian existence ... stands within an expectation. Its fulfillment may be sure, but its timing is unknown.

  Luke Johnson

  Christian, Expectations, May

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• No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and father and no man would ever conceive of those relationships as instruments of his prime function in life. Yet every woman is raised, still, to believe that the fulfillment of these relationships is her prime function in life and, what's more, her instinctive choice.

  Vivian Gornick

  Husband, Father, Believe

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet,
  Completing him not otherwise complete!
  How void and useless the sad remnant left
  Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

  Abraham Coles

  Sweet, Women, Useless

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79

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• You aren't always going to make stuff that everybody does. The sooner that you just realize that and accept that, the better. At best, hopefully, you will like it, every time, and that might not even happen. It's the nature of your work. It's just what comes with it. So, it makes it easier to deal with anybody criticizing you or anything thinking you're wonderful when you realize that you just need to focus in this one area, which is your creative fulfillment and enjoyment.

  Sharlto Copley

  Thinking, Creative, Focus

  Source: collider.com

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• To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, World

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• If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.

  Oliver Sacks

  Nice, Blessed, Heart

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• There are many paths through the Ring of Life. They are a constant movement toward self-fulfillment through growth of your mind, expansion of your experiences, widening of your senses and growing your spirit. It's ceaseless and constant throughout one's life.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Travel, Self, Growth

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• THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.

  Neville Goddard

  Believe, Self, Desire

  Neville Goddard (2016). “The Neville Goddard Collection”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

  Herbert Gold

  Dream, Challenges, Humanity

  Herbert Gold (1971). “The Magic Will: Stories & Essays”, p.50, Transaction Publishers

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• I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Husband, Jewels, Careers

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• The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.

  Maynard Webb

  Soccer, Meaningful, Team

  "Meritocracy: World Cup Fever" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2010.

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• Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Unique, Soul, Individuality

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1974). “Christianity and Evolution”, Mariner Books

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