Quotes About Fulfillment

Ki?iyi kendin gibi biliyorsun. Yaln?zca al?rs?n sen, vermezsin. Bu nedenle kar?? cinsten biriyle bir arada olup da, onu hemen "becermek" iste?i duymamak kavram? sana nas?l yabanc?ysa, bir kimsenin ya?amdan, "vermek"le tat alabilece?i kavram? da öylece yabanc?d?r.

?imdi anl?yor musun mutluluk neden senden kaç?yor? Mutluluk, u?runda çal???lmas?n? gerektirir; mutluluk gökten ya?maz, kazan?l?r. Oysa sen mutlulu?u yaln?zca yalay?p yutmak istiyorsun; bu yüzden senden kaç?yor o da; senin kendisini kemirmeni, yutman? istemiyor.

El proceso sexual, o sea, el proceso biológico expansivo del placer, es el proceso vital productivo per se.

Buna göre insan olman?n anlam?, insan olman?n bütün imkanlar?n? denemekte yat?yor olabilir.

Mutluluk önemlidir ama anlam daha önemlidir.

Ya?am sanat?n?n ödevi, ba?ar?l? bir hayata katk?da bulunmak ve insan? mutlu etmek de?il midir? Evet, k?smen öyledir ama ba?ar?s?z ve mutsuz olmak da vard?r insna hayat?nda. En az?ndan basitçe "def edemeyece?imiz" için vard?r. Ba?ar? zorunluluk de?ildir, ba?ar?s?zl?k hep bir ihtimaldir.

Ama insanlar?n hayatta bir miktar mutsuz olmaya da ihtiyaçlar? vard?r, a?k da bunun güvenilir bir tedarikçisidir.

En vahimi, birçoklar?n?n mutluluktan tam da bunu ummas?d?r: Kesintisiz ho?luk hali, daimi ne?e, keyifler hep yerinde olsun ve bol e?lence. Ne var ki mutlulu?u bir tür daimi zevkte aramak, mutsuz olman?n en emin yoludur. ... ?nsanlar?n hayatlar?nda dair huzursuzluk duymalar? için bir ?eyin onlar? ac?tmas? gerekir: ??te bunu mutsuzlu?a borçluyuzdur.

The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.

The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced six-cent-mihaly) has done

recipe for a dissatisfied adulthood is setting goals that are especially difficult to attain. Measured by life satisfaction 20 years later, the least promising goal that a young person could have was "becoming accomplished in a performing art.

Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?

One recipe for a dissatisfied adulthood is setting goals that are especially difficult to attain. Measured by life satisfaction 20 years later, the least promising goal that a young person could have was "becoming accomplished in a performing art

We cannot hold a concept of well-being that ignores what people want

Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

Giacché ci troviamo al mondo senza che nessuno ce lo abbia chiesto, tanto vale provare a realizzare qualcosa.

I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

If a man cannot invest his life, or any part of it, with meaning, all he has left are distractions from meaninglessness, although few of us acknowledge them as such.

An avowed anti-Catholic, Maurice Maeterlinck, the twentieth-century Belgian philosopher and playwright, weighed in with: "An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

life's meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself

The critical point is that knowing we can always get higher can be a real downer. It informs us that we are never going to reach the ultimate point of happiness because there is no ultimate point of happiness.