Finding Fulfillment Quotes

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?

I'm still missing that little something.

Love your life, poor as it is.

The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.

All of us are hungry to be a part of great stories. There are some fortunate ones who get it early in their career, and there are some, for whom it takes a little while to get to be even considered for a part which could be promising.

As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

Find joy in the journey.

I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

I always saw my peers finding some cool passion, but every time I tried one of those things, it never clicked. I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"

I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.

Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

It's been a long road. A humble Dearborn beginning. Secretary mom, dad teaching handicapped children. Working for what they had. Eventually, I moved to L.A. but, not good for me, I felt rejected. So I stopped acting and, needing to feel good inside, became a chef.

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it’s not where they’re gonna find their sense of completion. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself, until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.