Quotes About Fulfillment

Secretul fericirii, sau cel pu?in al lini?tii, e s? ?tii s? despar?i sexul de iubire. ?i, dac? e posibil, s? elimini iubirea romantic? din via?a ta, c?ci ea te face s? suferi.

We do so many things together. We go to theatres, exhibitions, bookstores, we spend hours and hours discussing politics, books, films, friends. And you think I do these things for the same reason you do, because I enjoy them. But you're wrong. I do them all for it, for the tapeworm. That's how it seems to me: that my whole life is no longer for my sake but for the sake of what I carry inside me, of which I am now no more than a servant.

Maar wie maakte zich druk om geld als je het afwoog tegen geluk?

Un hombre debe vivir mientras sienta que la vida vale la pena.

El sexo había sido para él, igual que el alimento, algo que aplacaba una necesidad primaria y luego producía hastío

Ahora sabía que el amor era también una exaltación de la piel, un encandilamiento de los sentidos, un vértigo que parecía completarla

Solo un idiota puede ser totalmente feliz.

El secreto de la felicidad, o, por lo menos, de la tranquilidad, es saber separar el sexo del amor. Y, si es posible, eliminar el amor romántico de tu vida, que es el que hace sufrir. Así se vive más tranquilo y se goza más.

Yes, it's true, what I said earlier: A real life doesn't mean geting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too, is knowing what you love.But getting what you love? Having what you love love you back? Oh, my friend, it's miracle: your one tiny life's head-on collision with divinity.

A real life doesn't mean getting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too is knowing what you love.

To be next to her was to have everything.

Always live your life with your biography in mind, Dad was fond of saying. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve of another's nude shoulder; to never be satisfied, to never have the mind and body cheerfully stranded in a single location - this is the curse of the human race!

We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.

Always life your life with your biography in mind. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a magnificent reason, but at the very least you'll be living grandly.

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE LIVED BADLY

I'm happy to see you so well-settled here. Now you must make an effort, you must become somebody. I don't care what you do later, only try to be the best. Even if you become a cabaret dance, better that you dance at the lido than in a hole in the wall.

Third: live together as long as you feel truly happy. Life is too short to be lived badly.

Books are curious things. When they want to live, the find a way to become part of the lives that need them. From: The Familiar vol. 2: Into the Forest

Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it's true that nothing matters more to us than that.

I came to the conclusion that the cure for a lot of my moodiness was having more frequent sex with my wife.

We look to the accumulation of sensory pleasures to give our lives meaning. We have the ability now to consume anything we want and this capacity far exceeds our actual needs. With so much at our fingertips, a kind of gluttony pervades our mind-sets.

Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection

He'd tried celibacy. The only problem was the lack of sex.