Quotes About Fulfillment

Work was the poor man's blessing. When there was always something to do, something you liked to do and knew at the same time that it was necessary and useful, you could be contented—after a fashion—even when your husband was in the Pacific

Why is it 'housewife'? What would I call myself if we lived in a hotel? Nobody ever puts down just 'wife,' or even just 'mother.' If you haven't got a job, and you don't keep house, then you aren't anything. apparently. I wish I was something else. I mean, besides keeping house, I wish I was a designer, for instance. The children would think a lot more of me, if I was a designer. Maybe Tom would, too.

When you are productive you are accomplishing something in terms of your goal

Quality alone cannot be the goal. It's important. But it's not the goal.

Pero la realidad sigue siendo que estamos condicionados a acumular stock. Todas y cada una de nuestras tiendas están hasta la coronilla de existencias. Si nos dan más espacio, les aseguro que también lo llenamos.

and the Prospect of that continued Bliss she expected to share with him, took from her all Remorse for having engaged in an Affair which promised her so much Satisfaction, and in which she found not the least Danger of Misfortune.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

Good food is also there to satisfy the senses.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

When there is no longer any growth in me, I desire to die — for one. And at present I by no means desire to die.

There's value in work you enjoy, or that serves a need. There's no value in work for its own sake.

Strange to have his former apprentice treating with him as an equal now. Strange, and satisfying.

How would she know, in the end, what was her desire and what was given her?

I'd rather be bored than sad. I'd rather be done than lonely.

We do not always do what we are built for.

It's kind of horrifying to think of an era when people were so constrained to and by gender, in which the externals you were born with were something you would be stuck with your whole life, could never alter, and it would determine your entire social role and your potential for emotional fulfilment and intellectual achievement.

External goals cannot hit internal targets.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

The iPhone mind-wandering study showed that when people are not thinking about what they're doing, they're just not as happy as when they're engaged. As

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.