Quotes About Fulfillment

knight in shining armor is not a realistic option. But there's a part of me that wants a huge, amazing romance. I want passion. I want to be swept off my feet. I want an earthquake, or a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I don't know, a huge whirlwind Ã¢â'¬Â¦ something exciting. Sometimes I feel as if there's this whole new, thrilling life waiting for me out there, and if I can just—

Il lavoro è sicuramente una delle cose più importanti della vita, e dovrebbe essere adatto a te. Lo stipendio non è tutto.

count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom...

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

It's little I ask, and get still less, but quite enough for me.

Keep your eyes on that last days, on your dying. Happiness and peace, they were not yours unless at death you can look back on your life and say I lived, I did not suffer.

What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy.

Seven matched with seven, at each gate one, Their captains, when the day was done, Left for our Zeus who turned the scale, The brazen tribute in full tale: - All save the horror-burdened pair, Dire children of despair, Who from one sire, one mother, drawing breath, Each with conquering lance in rest Against a true born brother's breast, Found equal lots in death.

Therefore, while our eyes wait to see the destined final day, we must call no one happy who is of mortal race, until he has crossed life's border, free from pain.

The happiest life consists of ignorance, Before you learn how to grieve or rejoice. --SOPHOCLES (496-406 B.C.)

Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day, count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.

I know I please where I must please the most.

Blest, they are the truly blest who all their lives have never tasted devastation.

Destiny guide me always Destiny find me filled with reverence pure in word and deed.

It's little I ask for, and still less I get, yet it is enough for me.

Mortal man must always look to his ending. And none can be called happy until that day when he carries his happiness down to the grave in peace. - Sophocles

does there exist, is there a man on earth who seizes more joy than just a dream, a vision?

I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.

Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.

If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.