Quotes About Fulfillment

I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.

But a life spent reading—that is a good life.

Do you think you will keep your life, or anything else you love? But no. Your needs are all met. But not as the world giveth. You see the needs of your own spirit met whenever you have asked, and you have learned that the outrageous guarantee holds. You see the creatures die, and you know you will die. And one day it occurs to you that you must not need life.

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet

if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.

Quand j'étais enfant, le luxe c'était pour moi les manteaux de fourrure et les villas au bord de la mer. Plus tard, j'ai cru que c'était de mener une vie d'intellectuel. Il me semble maintenant que c'est aussi de pouvoir vivre une passion pour un homme ou une femme

The more I drink, the more I remember all the things we've never done. I was a ghost until I touched you. Never swallowed mortal food until I tasted you, never understood the spoken word until I found your tongue. I've been a sleep-walker, sad somnambula, hands outstretched to strike the solid thing that could awaken me to life at last. I have only ever stood here under this lamp, against your body, I've missed you all my life.

Kathleen is truly and utterly and completely Kathleen in New York. That's what the city does for you if it's meant for you.

V prvom rade sú to naÅ¡e myÅ¡lienkové vzorce, nie udalosti, ktoré nás vedú k nespokojnosti, ?i spokojnosti.

What are our expectations? Which of the things we desire are within reach? If not now, when? and will there be some left for me?

Be a fool. For love. For yourself. What you think MIGHT possibly make you happy—even for a little while—whatever the cost or good sense might dictate.

I think people lose sight of the fact that chefs should be ultimately in the pleasure business, not in the look-at-me business.

Life is good. I like my job.

After a while, even the most beautiful scenery threatens to become moving wallpaper—background—but other times, it all seems to come together: the work, the play, all the places I've been, where I am now, a happy, stupid, wonderful confluence of events.

I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

That was everything. I'd done the lot now. And me still only fifteen.

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

It was, however, in keeping with the way my uncle conducted his life that he should reach his destination without knowing the name of the goal.