Quotes About Fulfillment

Which in the gray of gentler eyes will prove far more than any of us could ever need; 'enough' we will shout, 'enough!' our bellies full, our hearts full, our ages full; fullness and greater fullness and even more fullness; how then we will laugh and forget how imagining has already left us.

There's only one choice now: finish what Zampanò himself failed to finish. Re-inter this thing in a binding tomb. Make it only a book.

Breaking my neck was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.

Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.

you need life in your life.

I'm pretty much just hoping to live decent. I hope that's enough.

You are like he was, Keith enlightens me, and just like him you were most likely to die in the same way - a quarter of what you could have been...

The last words of Max Vandenburg - You've done enough.

If I die anytime soon, you make sure they bury me right.

You ate it up and you didn't ask for more, and you didn't complain.

I still remember staying up all night to get it done, and I realize that's always the best time to finish a book. The sun is yet to come up. It seems the whole world is asleep, and there you are, on your own, with the pages set before you.

Maybe the only thing that matters is to make our lives last as long as we do. You know, to make a life last until it ends, to make all the parts come out even, like when you rub the last piece of bread in the last drop of oil on your plate and eat it with the last sip of wine in your glass.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth

Your] search for meaning in the world... can only really be fulfilled by the greater purpose that has sent [you] here in the first place.

Never think that your purpose will arise from what you want for yourself. People make this mistake every day. They think, "Well, my purpose? Let's see, what do I want?" as if they were choosing from a great wish list. Purpose has to do with what the world needs from you and what you are able to give to the world, which may or may not conform to your personal goals, plans and ambitions.

He sido tan feliz desde que nos hemos conocido, he sentido tan intensa y plenamente, que me bastaría para toda mi vida. Es como si ya me hubieran otorgado con creces la ración que me corresponde. Si nunca más fuera dichoso, no tendría derecho a quejarme.

L'única resposta contra la mort és una vocació implacable per ser feliç. La única respuesta contra la muerte es una vocación implacable por ser feliz.

What is it that people do? What do we live to do, the way a horse lives to run?

You will never realize your best destiny through the avoidance of fear. Rather, you will realize it through the exercise of courage, which means taking whatever action is most liberating to the soul, even when you are afraid.

Every experience that's part of your best destiny is beautiful to your soul.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end.

He had promised my payout would be halfway to six figures. And it was. It was three figures.