Quotes About Fulfillment

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.

There is no wealth but life.

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.

Keep striving and searching for greater realization. Through that yearning the problems of execution will be solved.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

He stands in history as the completer of the globe.

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: On the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself, an ideal end. Aiming thus, at something else, they find happiness, by the way.

Sex. Love. The lack of both was like two deprivations from two deep and timeless wells.

You have to absolutely love what you are doing or you will become a slave to it.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Little seed! thy hidden virtue Stirs Time's womb; The bright promise thou art heir to Lights the tomb.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!"

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.

Those only are happy .... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness, "a crisis in my mental history

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.

But I now thought that this end [one's happiness] was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness[....] Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness along the way[....] Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth.

When people who are tolerably fortunate in their outward lot do not find in life sufficient enjoyment to make it valuable to them, the cause generally is, caring for nobody but themselves

is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity.