Quotes About Fulfillment

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you want.

For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race -- and of ours -- sexual intercourse! It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!

I can help anyone get anything they want out of life. The only problem is that I can't find anyone who knows what they want.

A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.

The first most important day of you life is the day you were born. The second is when you discover why.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

It's the same here as it is on earth—you've got to earn a thing, square and honest, before you enjoy it.  You can't enjoy first and earn afterwards.  But there's this difference, here: you can choose your own occupation, and all the powers of heaven will be put forth to help you make a success of it, if you do your level best.  The shoe-maker on earth that had the soul of a poet in him won't have to make shoes here.

The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him--why, certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same.

He put his foot on it, and lifted one of the sleeves out with his teeth, and chewed and chewed at it, gradually taking it in, and all the while opening and closing his eyes in a kind of religious ecstasy, as if he had never tasted anything as good as an overcoat before, in his life.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born an the day you find out why.

and as we lay and smoked the pipe of peace and compared all this luxury with the years of tiresome city life that had gone before it, we felt that there was only one complete and satisfying happiness in the world, and we had found it.

Old Man: The impulse which moves a person to do things - The only impulse that ever moves a person to do things Young Man: The only one! Is there but one? O.M. That is all Y.M. Well, certainly that is a strange doctrine. What is the sole impulse that ever moves a person to do a thing? O.M. The impulse to CONTENT HIS OWN SPIRIT - the NECESSITY of contenting his own spirit and WINNING ITS APPROVAL.

Only two things we'll regret on deathbed – that we are a little loved and little traveled.

She said, The future is secure—I can wait, and enjoy the waiting. The most of her lost interests revived. She took up music again, and languages, drawing, painting, and the other long-discarded delights of her maidenhood. She was happy once more, and felt again the zest of life.

Los dos días más importantes de tu vida son el día en que naces y el día en que descubres para qué

Cele mai importante dou? zile din viaÈ›a ta sunt ziua în care te-ai n?scut È™i cea în care afli de ce.

Her religion made her inwardly content and joyous; and

For when a man's soul is starving, what does he care for meat and roof so he can but get that nobler hunger fed?

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own Heaven to be happy." "Perfectly correct," says he.  "Did you imagine the same heaven would suit all sorts of men?

Without dreams and goals there is no living, merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

A happy person with decent self-esteem wouldn't bother to have credentials as good as mine.

Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.