#fulfillment

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#entirely #fulfillment #hope #leaves #never

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

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#distraction #fulfillment #wander

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#cannot #carry #concrete #demands #everyone

Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream. ↗

— Mel Martinez

#al #american #american dream #attorney #attorney general

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. ↗

— Henry Miller

#artist #committed #fulfillment #him #his

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#along #assuredly #buried #deep #direct

This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#care #everything #fulfillment #inspiration #lines

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. ↗

— James Baldwin

#attachment #belonging #comfort #completion #fulfillment