Quotes About Fulfillment

Through the ages, an impressive number of philosophers—from hedonists to transcendentalists—have rated friendship as life's greatest pleasure.

To feel pleasure in any act or activity, you have to pursue some end other than pleasure.

If all you seek from something is pleasure, you'll never find it. All you will feel is noia [existential boredom], often disgust. To feel pleasure in any act or activity, you have to pursue some end other than pleasure.

In his Studies in Pessimism, he wrote: "If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves.

With nothing meaningful in life, nothing is interesting. Enter boredom. A bored man even longs for longing. He has time to fill, but there is nothing compelling to do.

Oscar Wilde: "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the

Pay and profit tell you that you are supplying a need and filling other people's wants. They are not the motivation for your work, they are the validation of your work.

There is only one way to make money: finding out what other people want or need and then providing those things to as many of our fellow humans as possible.

Find what you want in what you have and happiness will be assured.

Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have.

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We expect the next car, the next house or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't

the fundamental needs of a vibrant economy and the fundamental needs of a happy individual are not necessarily the same.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be means to that end.

O grande desejo do rio é ser rio. Ele não quer ser outra coisa. E ele só não poderá sê-lo se abandonar sua verdadeira vocação.

O grande desejo do rio é ser rio. Ele não quer ser outra coisa. E ele só não poderá sê-lo se abandonar sua verdadeira vocação. Acontecerá com ele o que acontece com todos os que, homens ou mulheres, abandonam sua missão: ficará doente, podre, fedorento. Água parada cria lodo, e a vida vai embora. Ninguém quer tomar banho em um rio com água parada, pois sabe que ali não há alegria. Ali estará um ser que desistiu.

The quest for this simple bliss, free from dogmas and religious beliefs, from submission to a priesthood, and from the hope of being sanctified by others, is the object of each person's search.

Why do almost all the spiritual paths prohibit sensorality, desire, and passion? Why cut off a part of human potential in order to find plenitude? What kind of plenitude would it be if it did not include the totality of the human?

Now every time there is a rainbow, people remember God's promise to Noah.

On se prépare à la jouissance du siècle, et, le moment venu, elle a un goût de Fernet Branca. Sur ce point comme sur quelques autres, Julia a raison : ne jamais investir dans la promesse du plaisir. Tout de suite ou pas du tout.

Vivir es pasarse el tiempo llenando los dos platos de la balanza

Mai investire nella promessa del piacere. Subito o mai.

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.