Quotes About Fulfillment

Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the books have never come up to what was in my head, and that the rewards—the comfortable income, the public notice, the literary prizes, and the honorary degrees—have been tinsel, not what a grown man should be content with.

Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential.

I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended

Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.

In my experience, the world's happiest man is a young professor building bookcases.

She resents rusting unburnished when she wants to shine in use.

She says, "But in contentment I still feelThe need of some imperishable bliss."Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreamsAnd our desires.

These external regions, what do we fill them withExcept reflections, the escapades of death,Cinderella fulfilling herself beneath the roof.

Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires.

She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?

If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.

I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

The desire to retire is an expression of despair. It means that you have lost your rudder and do not know why you are here or where you are going.

El mejor placer en la vida es hacer lo que la gente te dice que no puedes hacer.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption.

That divine rest on the seventh day of creation has made clear (a) that YHWH is not a workaholic, (b) that YHWH is not anxious about the full functioning of creation, and (c) that the well-being of creation does not depend on endless work.

we may consider the sabbath as an alternative to the endless demands of economic reality, more specifically the demands of market ideology that depend, as Adam Smith had already seen, on the generation of needs and desires that will leave us endlessly "rest-less," inadequate, unfulfilled, and in pursuit of that which may satiate desire.