Sentence examples for quest for fulfillment from inspiring English sources

The texts suggest a metaphoric journey, hinting at man's quest for fulfillment and meaning.

For Tashlin, that same outer child is the victim of inner turmoil, of inhibitions and neuroses that thwart his quest for fulfillment and render him unable to fit in.

They are people who "abuse etiquette in pursuit of recreation," says Mr. Schoenberg, who is also a creative director on the Cloudveil account, and they may have "lost a job or a girlfriend or boyfriend" in their quest for fulfillment outdoors.

How are you going to get there?" That quest for fulfillment is actually a relatively new one in our society, born out of the abundance that's allowed the developed world to conquer more basic problems.

McKenna's solution to romantic-comedy fatigue is not to ironize the genre or make fun of its characters' (and therefore its audience's) quests for fulfillment, but to give them what they want: a great guy and a great job, a happy family and professional success.

In this memoir, the author chronicles her relentless quest for religious fulfillment, which leads her from a voodoo shrine in Louisiana to a Presbyterian church in Brooklyn.

Played by the mousy-voiced, quick-eyed Shirley Henderson (Moaning Myrtle in the "Harry Potter" movies), she is one of three sisters whose quest for contentment, fulfillment and normalcy sits at the center of this episodic exploration of failure and disappointment.

The quest for spiritual fulfillment has moved away from church and into the secular world, where prayer and religious yearnings are displayed more publicly than ever -- in a fashion that was hardly imaginable a quarter-century ago.

Ms. Yu sifts through "The Analects" to find quotations and stories that support this quest for personal fulfillment, mixes them with references to Buddhism and Taoism, Hegel and Tagore, and ties everything together with anecdotes from contemporary life.

After a five-year stint in a Zen Buddhist monastery and various legal distractions, he is back on the road: an undertaking that seems to combine his quest for spiritual fulfillment with an effort to regain his financial footing, lost when his former business manager made off with his money while Mr. Cohen was living as a monk on a mountaintop above Los Angeles.

Divorce and remarriage, the accumulation of stepchildren, intermarriage and increasing ethnic diversity both within the family and without, as well as the conflicts attending the never-ending quest for personal fulfillment, have created a whole new set of problems and dramatic possibilities.