Quotes About Fulfillment

Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Happiness extends just as far as study extends, and the more someone studies, the happier he is...

Happiness belongs to those who suffice themselves.

On the other hand, because fortune is needed as an addition, some hold good fortune to be identical with Happiness: which it is not, for even this in excess is a hindrance, and perhaps then has no right to be called good fortune since it is good only in so far as it contributes to Happiness.

M?c tiêu lá»›n nh?t c?a ??i ng??i là s?ng Ä'úng vá»›i ti?m n?ng c?a b?n thân

Life's not a one-shot special. It's a friggin' on-going series. Live it!

And without the power to concentrate—that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience—true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.

Until an effort is made to satisfy that wish, the sense of uneasy waiting for something to start which has not started will remain to disturb the peace of the soul.

If a man makes two-thirds of his existence subservient to one-third, for which admittedly he has no absolutely feverish zest, how can he hope to live fully and completely? He cannot.

Sommige mensen lijden omdat ze niet hoeven te leven. Ze hebben alles. Hun natje, hun droogje, een dak boven het hoofd. Maar ze hoeven niet te leven, want ze hebben alles. Als ze een boek waren geweest, zou een recensent vast schrijven: 'Aardig, maar de noodzaak ontbreekt'.

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I've been moving towards it my whole life.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves—people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better. —MARK TWIGHT, "I Hurt, Therefore I Am

I did get myself into this. Somehow, in some convoluted way, it's what I've been looking for in my life. How else did I come to be here? We create our lives. I don't fully understand why, but little by little I get that somehow I've wanted something like this to happen. I've been looking for adventure, and I've found it.

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends.

I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart.

They were, perhaps, as contented as any race the world had known, and after their fashion they were happy. They spent their long lives amid beauty that had never been surpassed, for the labour of millions of centuries had been dedicated to the glory of Diaspar.

He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart. No one had really lived until they had achieved that synthesis of love and desire which he had never dreamed existed until he came to Lys. He

No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time.

He had reached the position where neither personal possessions nor official ceremony could add anything to his stature.

Crime had practically vanished. It had become unnecessary and impossible. When no one lacks anything there is no point in stealing.

When no one lacks anything, there is no point in stealing.