#fulfillment

There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get. ↗

— Kim Gruenenfelder

#getting-older #life-goals #p #life

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#chance #disaster #discovery #each #fulfillment

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#been #continuous #did #dreams #earth

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#distraction #fulfillment #wander

I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them. ↗

— Mike McCready

#contract #course #decided #epic #fulfillment

Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#give #jobs #people #self-reliance #sense

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#activities #begin #beyond #deepest #desire

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. ↗

— Colin Powell

#action #attains #chief #condition #depend

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#form #fulfillment #like #statistics #wish

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#beauty #earlier #ever #fade #fresh