Fulfillment Quotes - Page 23

• Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Space, Feminist

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.95, Routledge

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• The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

  Jay Saunders Redding

  Men, Community, Hunger

  Arthur Paul Davis, Jay Saunders Redding, Joyce Ann Joyce (1991). “The New Cavalcade: African American Writing from 1760 to the Present”

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• It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Real, Successful

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• Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Goal, Age, Weapons

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 65, 1954.

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• There is no state of final fulfillment. Each change opens new doors and ushers in new possibilities.

  Margo Adair

  Change, Doors, Finals

  Margo Adair (1984). “Working Inside Out: Tools for Change”, Bookpeople

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• Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all idolatries, addiction taps this vital spiritual force and draws off its energies to objects and processes that drain the addict instead of fulfilling him.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Spiritual, Long, Addiction

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• My heart was a desert You planted a seed And this is the flower This hour of sweet fulfillment

  Leo Robin

  Sweet, Flower, Heart

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• Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Eye, Self

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• Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Promise, Uncertain, Surprising

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Choices, Vocation

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• Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are only tokens. Seek not to have the gold medal. Instead, seek to be the person who can win the gold medal. It is in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which the reward represents.

  Ralph Marston

  Winning, Gold, Quests

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• A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Frustration, Self, Anxiety

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

  Ayn Rand

  Frustration, People, Trying

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• Being is central, and Being is now. The fulfillment of your life is not going to happen through anything. The outer activities in your life are secondary. What is Primary is Being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life Is, Happens, Activity

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• It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real, dangerous, to accept that mortality was the end for you as an individual. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife, so if you're thinking of murder, if your subject is murder, then that's a physical act of absolute destruction because you're ending something, a body, that is unique. That person never existed before, will never exist again, will not be karmically recycled, will not go to heaven, therefore I take it seriously.

  David Cronenberg

  Atheist, Real, Believe

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• I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.

  Stephanie Szostak

  Jobs, School, Office

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• Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy.

  John Boyega

  Reality, People, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself.  This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life.  The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

  Epictetus

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Unique, People

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• It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Jobs, Work

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.11, Penguin

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• Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Money, Work

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.9, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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