Quotes About Fulfillment

Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?

So, you're telling me that no matter what, you can't be happy? Well, darling, it's no wonder you're miserable. It's what you want...So then try (to be happy).

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

I know now there should have been no higher beatitude than to live in the presence of an unselfish, unasking, vital love.

Ela se lembrou do que era a esperança, e era isso. Aquela agitação interna que te impele, que faz você avançar pela vida como os barcos abaixo abrindo caminho pela água reluzente, como o avião avançando rumo a um lugar novo, onde precisavam dela.

Haweeya had never been able to figure out exactly what Americans wanted. (Everything, she sometimes thought. They wanted everything.)

If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person, not only changed, but for the better

What did I ever do, Celia thought, to have such a wonderful, satisfying, happy life?

But that community still exists, Aristotle argues, in order to make the householder happy, rather than the other way around.

In fact, in eighteenth-century English, the language of Kames's works, property meant the same as propriety: those things that are proper to me, and to me alone. To Kames and his followers, including Hume and Adam Smith, to own things is in fact to own myself. Property makes me a whole and complete human being.

For it is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for

por unos momentos, tratar al niño como si fuera el centro de nuestro universo. Todo eso lo hace plenamente feliz

Verdriet kan zo vertrouwd worden dat het je houvast geeft, maar ik geef het je te doen om overeind te blijven wanneer je enige droom in één klap uitkomt.

Ik vertel je mijn leven alleen opdat jij dit geheim meteen bij aanvang al zult kennen: wij zijn ongelukkig omdat wij denken dat we lief moeten hebben. Om gered te worden moeten wij iets eenvoudigs doen dat ons desalniettemin het zwaarst van alles valt: wegschenken waarnaar wij juist het meest verlangen. Niet hebben, maar geven. Zo zegepralen wij alsnog. Dit heeft mij mijn gebrek geleerd.

Een droom dat je niet toetst, wordt een desillusie

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

A man can't go out the way he came in… a man has got to add up to something!

Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy?

In Brooklyn I am content, the closest we can come to a sustained happiness.

There was a deep pleasure in simply knowing what happened to everyone at the end.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.