Quotes About Fulfillment

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

And each one of us drives love from our lives, drives the longing, the desire for happiness and peace from our lives, each time we run from generosity. There is no love, there is no peace, there is no joy without him. He and he alone is our reward exceedingly great; no physical comfort, no thing, no person can ever truly fill our lives.

The kingdom of God will not be brought to fulfillment on earth by one great, sword-swinging battle against the powers of darkness, but only by each of us laboring and suffering day after day as Christ labored and suffered, until all things at last have been transformed.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.

All of us have so much more time than we use well. How many hours in a life are spent in a way of which one might be proud, looking back?

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

That's the trouble. I would be digging a ditch. They would say, That's no place for a man like you. Come up to the office. So I would be an overseer, and they would say That's no place for a man like you: Come into the building. Later they would say This is no job for a man like you, come higher up; and I would quit, and go and start digging a ditch somewhere else. You see?

Warum tötest du mich nicht?" fragte der Bücherjäger. "Du solltest eigentlich wissen", antwortete Homunkoloss, "daß es immer einen geben muß, der überlebt, damit er die Geschichte erzählen kann. Denn sonst gäbe es bald keine Geschichten mehr, um die Bücher zu füllen.

As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Estoy hecho para hacer buenas cosas, interesantes, alegres y simpáticas, así no sean extraordinarias y fuera de serie". Te quitarás un enorme peso de encima.

Un sexo sin creatividad es demasiado animal.

aquellos que logran transitar el camino de la sabiduría, sea por la vía de la filosofía o por cualquier otro medio, no necesitan de nada más, incluyendo el dinero.

La falsa paradoja: idiota feliz o sabio infeliz queda resuelta. Hay una tercera opción mejor: sabio feliz, así sea redundante, porque no existe sabiduría sin alegría.

un síndrome, no un valor. Pasión por vivir, hacerle el amor a la vida. Hasta el más grande de los placeres puede

La premisa es como sigue: cuanto más hagas del "ganar" un valor, paradójicamente, más destinado estarás a perder.

imposible aprender a quererte a ti mismo si no aceptas vivir intensamente.

No importa lo que pienses: no mereces sufrir, así que mientras puedas evitar el sufrimiento inútil e innecesario, te estarás respetando a ti mismo. No hay felicidad completa sin autorrespeto, sin mantenerse fiel a tu propio ser y al potencial que llevas dentro.

Hay placeres que no son para compartir

El sabio no espera nada, pero no porque ya lo tenga todo, sino porque no teme perder nada.

Quererse a uno mismo es considerarse digno de lo mejor, fortalecer el autorrespeto y darse la oportunidad de ser feliz por el solo hecho y sin más razón que la de estar vivo.