Fulfillment Quotes - Page 24

• For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.

  Warren Farrell

  War, Self, Years

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

  Warren Farrell

  Identity, Males, Midlife

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Men, Giving

  "The Greening of America". Book by Charles A. Reich, 1970.

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• Many of the early greats of sf — Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular — saw themselves as educators. The didactic thrust of science fiction got the genre initially pegged as children's fare. It was seen, at its best, as an extension of school and, at its worst, as teenage wish fulfillment.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Children, Teenage, School

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• 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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• 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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• Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire.

  Susan McClary

  Mean, Expectations, Musical

  Susan McClary (2017). “Reading Music: Selected Essays”, p.147, Routledge

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• The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.

  Wendell Berry

  Technology, Hands, Two

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays”, p.22, Counterpoint Press

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• But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.

  Robert Kennedy

  Brother, Winning, Purpose

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.

  Dan Millman

  Patience, Warrior, Water

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.4, H J Kramer

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• Whether on the floor of Congress or in the boardrooms of corporate America or in the corridors of a big city hospital, there is no body of professional expertise and no anthology of case studies which can supplant the force of character which provides both a sense of direction and a means of fulfillment. It asks, not what you want to be, but who you want to be.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Character, Mean, Cities

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• To receive more, we must give out what we receive. . . . For it is by giving that we set in operation the unfailing law of measure for measure. With no thought of receiving, it is impossible to avoid receiving, for the abundance you have given is returned to you in fulfillment of the law.

  Baird T. Spalding

  Law, Giving, Receiving

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• True fulfillment in life doesnt come from what we get, it comes from what we give

  Marie Forleo

  Giving, Fulfillment In Life

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• It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Grace, Challenges, And Love

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• Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Simple, May

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• Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every expectation has been met and the world is perfect.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Perfect, Expectations, Effort

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.

  Eric Hoffer

  Marriage, Names, Boredom

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

  George Jean Nathan

  Love, Heart, Broken

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

  Eric Bentley

  Dream, Wish, Farce

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• Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Creating, Giving

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• When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Thinking, People, Frustrated

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.34, Thomas Nelson

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• Change requires leaving our comfort zones and plunging headfirst into uncomfortable situations. It's true this causes some pain and discomfort for a moment, but it's the quickest path to generating long-term fulfillment.

  Yehuda Berg

  Pain, Uncomfortable Situations, Long

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