Fulfillment Quotes - Page 8

• There's something people find hilarious about dogs surfing and dancing and talking in the movies. I think it's nice for people - I think it's wish fulfillment - to see animals talking.

  Owen Wilson

  Dog, Nice, Thinking

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• Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Expression, Who We Are

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• Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Kindness, Heart

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• Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

  Robert Frost

  Expression, Effort, Reaching

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• Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance.

  David Simon

  Yoga, Heart, Creativity

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• Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

  Ralph Marston

  Real, Opportunity, Challenges

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• Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Successful, Past

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• The narrative for girls is that you just hang around and wait to be "chosen" and then you belong to somebody and you live happily ever after. There isn't room for more nuanced concerns about the creepy proprietary nature of that relationship model, or the breadth of what fulfillment really means for women.

  Lindy West

  Girl, Mean, Waiting

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime Sufferer in Chapter 53 than Jesus of Nazareth?

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Jesus, Writing, Swings

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• There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands

  Martin Buber

  Treasure, May, Found

  Martin Buber (1958). “Hasidism and modern man”, Horizon House Pubs

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• Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.

  Simon Sinek

  Live Life, Inspire, Purpose

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• Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.

  Martin Luther

  Command, Commandments

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• No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Men, True Joy, Ego

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• I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

  Alban Berg

  Music, Independence, Proud

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• Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

  Herman Melville

  Evil, Risk, Desire

  Herman Melville (2015). “Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Works of Melville”, p.201, 谷月社

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• Sanctified ignorance is the belief that if we love God and have committed our lives to Him, everything will work out…Sanctified ignorance is no excuse for a life out of alignment, lacking joy, fulfillment, and a clear sense of accomplishment…Look at how God has uniquely gifted you in your skills and abilities, personality traits, and values, dreams and passions. It is in these that we find the authentic path designed for us for a purpose-driven life.

  Dan Miller

  Dream, Passion, Ignorance

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• For most people, love is a response to need fulfillment. Everyone has needs. You need this, another needs that. You both see in each other a chance for need fulfillment. So you agree-tacitly-to a trade. I'll trade you what I've got if you'll give me what you've got. It's a transaction. But you don't tell the truth about it. You don't say, "I trade you very much." You say, "I love you very much," and then the disappointment begins.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Disappointment

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.111, Penguin

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• We can all pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of Gods will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands.

  Harry S. Truman

  Hands, Soul, Praying

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• Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Meals, Eating, Joyful

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Children, Order, Scientist

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• This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Unique, Giving

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.186, Anchor

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• The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given its ultimate fulfillment as an expression of the wisdom of Christ.

  Graeme Goldsworthy

  Expression, Rays, Centeredness

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• Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Ego, World

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where #Christian love is a reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Loyalty, Home

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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  Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have
  tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Lonely, Frustration, Despair

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