self-fulfilment
Britishnoun
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In fairy tales we associate heroic action with courage and self-fulfilment, not self-destruction.
From Salon
“We’re not talking about self-fulfilment or spiritual needs but survival.”
From The Guardian
Far from being indifferent to individual self-fulfilment, Long-Bailey’s aspirational socialism appears to regard collective uplift and the empowerment of working class and marginalised communities as a necessary precondition for it.
From The Guardian
The summer fling is a cliche – elegantly mocked in, for example, Michael Frayn’s 2012 Greek island farce Skios – but that only underlines its ongoing power as an idea, which is of sudden possibility, of the promise of self-fulfilment and a kind of adult joy no less potent for probably being doomed.
From The Guardian
Women expect greater self-fulfilment in the workplace, at home and in bed.
From The Guardian
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