Quotes About Fulfillment

hunger makes the best sauce.

stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionaries—everybody back then was expected to have some kind of inner life.

He knows that people marked for greater things are often the least happy of all.

Your sister's the doctor," her father said. His pride in his daughters was almost hilarious to behold, like a summer hose spraying in all directions. Seema knew what he would say next. "One doctor, one lawyer. I'm covered for life.

There's something outrageously simple about extending yourself toward a goal the way a plant seeks the sun's rays or a gopher the crunch of easy soil beneath his paws, and then getting exactly what you want , sunshine or some prized tuber.

How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?

True affluence is not needing anything.

I'm sixty-eight" he said, "I first bucked hay when I was seventeen. I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life. And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.

Una vita dedita alla semplicità, al giusto coraggio, al buon umore, alla gratitudine, al lavoro, al gioco senza riserve e tanto cammino ci portano vicino al mondo effettivamente esistente e alla sua interezza.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

He asked only to be 'someone,' like everybody else.

I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer!

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar

I expand in abundance, success, and love every day, as I inspire those around me to do the same.

The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.

Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.

Letting yourself savor natural good feelings is a direct way to transcend your Upper Limit Problem. By extending your ability to feel positive feelings, you expand your tolerance for things going well in your life. In

What do I most love to do? (I love it so much I can do it for long stretches of time without getting tired or bored.)

The Reformation may have resulted in a "Protestant work ethic," but this was not due to the pressure to prove one's election by worldly success, as certain social scientists ludicrously maintain. Rather, the work ethic emerged out of an understanding of the meaning of work and the satisfaction and fulfillment that come from ordinary human labor when seen through the light of the doctrine of vocation.

We are all serving time on death row; only the length of our stay is indeterminate. Dead people, walking. If our lives are to be fulfilling, we must be grateful for the experience alone.

What I didn't know was that I don't need to act. I might want to act—just for the love of acting—but not because I need to earn the right to feel loved by God. I've got something much better. . . . I feel loved by the person I love.

Each of us finds his way, his place; we rattle around the universe until everything fits; this is life; this is science, or something better than science.

Don't nobody ever want it to rain," the nearest of the sellers of beasts remarked philosophically, "but everybody wants to go on eatin'.

A young man seeks a woman and finds her and is great and dies to the world. Afterward he is never as great again, but the woman is a comfort to him, reminding him of the time that was, and he is a little again with her what once he was wholly.