--- title: "11 Seek Fulfillment Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 11 Seek Fulfillment quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Seek Fulfillment sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7b/jiddu-krishnamurti-249_frustration_to-seek-fulfillment-is-to-invite-frustra_870313.jpg" --- > [To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jiddu-krishnamurti/to-seek-fulfillment-is-to-invite-frustration/) [Jiddu Krishnamurti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jiddu-krishnamurti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7b/jiddu-krishnamurti-249_frustration_to-seek-fulfillment-is-to-invite-frustra_870313.jpg) > [In seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-dole/in-seeking-success-you-must-also-seek-fulfillment-ask-yourself-not/) [Elizabeth Dole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-dole/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/225/elizabeth-dole-23351_ask-yourself_in-seeking-success-you-must-also-seek-fu_3199055.png) > [The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laozi/the-master-doesn-t-seek-fulfillment-for-only-those-who-are-not-full/) [Laozi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laozi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/314/laozi-147_able_the-master-doesn-t-seek-fulfillment-for_2392757.jpg) > [In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-hamilton/in-the-marketing-society-we-seek-fulfillment-but-settle-for-abundance/) [Clive Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-hamilton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/clive-hamilton-58750_abundance_in-the-marketing-society-we-seek-fulfill_1395192.png) > [You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valmiki/you-cannot-count-on-the-physical-proximity-of-someone-you-love-all/) [Valmiki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valmiki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/valmiki-56617_care_you-cannot-count-on-the-physical-proximi_1796946.jpg) > [As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-fromm/as-long-as-anyone-believes-that-his-ideal-and-purpose-is-outside-him/) [Erich Fromm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-fromm/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/328/erich-fromm-367_above-the-clouds_as-long-as-anyone-believes-that-his-idea_143276.jpg) > [We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-friend/we-seek-fulfillment-in-our-lives-through-heart-connection-with-others/) [John Friend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-friend/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f4/john-friend-19081_connections_we-seek-fulfillment-in-our-lives-through_3057929.png) > [“In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-hamilton/in-the-marketing-society-we-seek-fulfillment-but-settle-for-abundance-2/) [Clive Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-hamilton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/045/clive-hamilton-58750_abundance_in-the-marketing-society-we-seek-fulfill_2727766.png) > [“From where inspiration comes, I don’t know. But that we seek fulfillment in a companion suggests we desire an object onto which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-fahy/from-where-inspiration-comes-i-don-t-know-but-that-we-seek/) [Tom Fahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-fahy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c31/tom-fahy-37551_gratitude_from-where-inspiration-comes-i-don-t-kno_1854289.jpg) > [I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillermo-del-toro/i-think-that-in-the-past-in-the-50s-and-60s-after-the-existentialists/) [Guillermo del Toro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillermo-del-toro/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/guillermo-del-toro-986_beast_i-think-that-in-the-past-in-the-50s-and_1992878.png) > [“What a privilege and opportunity it is to utterly come to the end of one's hope-not only to run out of answers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-anders/what-a-privilege-and-opportunity-it-is-to-utterly-come-to-the-end-of/) [Max Anders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-anders/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46a/max-anders-2957_spirituality_what-a-privilege-and-opportunity-it-is-t_1233145.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/seek-fulfillment/#itemlist", "name": "Seek Fulfillment Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jiddu Krishnamurti" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jiddu-krishnamurti/to-seek-fulfillment-is-to-invite-frustration/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7b/jiddu-krishnamurti-249_frustration_to-seek-fulfillment-is-to-invite-frustra_870313.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7b/jiddu-krishnamurti-249_frustration_to-seek-fulfillment-is-to-invite-frustra_870313.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7b/jiddu-krishnamurti-249_frustration_to-seek-fulfillment-is-to-invite-frustra_870313.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. 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