Quotes About Fulfillment

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something

If you want it your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of your own way forever.

People who seek to serve the community end up falsifying their work, she wrote, whether the work is writing a novel or baking bread, because they are not single- mindedly focused on the task at hand. But if you serve the work— if you perform each task to its utmost perfection— then you will experience the deep satisfaction of craftsmanship and you will end up serving the community more richly than you could have consciously planned.

But He, unshaken, with exultant voice cried, It is finished! and gave up the ghost. Finished--when men had thought it scarce begun.

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

I'm sure one should do one's own job, however trivial, and not persuade one's self into doing somebody else's, however noble.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Lasting happiness cannot be found in pursuit of any goal or achievement. It does not reside in fortune or fame. It resides only in the human mind and heart, and it is here that we hope you will find it.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door very happy. Hope your diodes rot. Thank you. Have a nice day. Stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. It is my pleasure to open for you... Zark off. ...and my satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done. I said zark off. Thank you for listening to this message.

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

You're paid a lot and you're not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don't want or need—for which you need more money.

It appeared then to be at least partially satisfied. Whereas before it had been a cross dodo, it was at least now a cross, fed dodo, which was probably about as much as it could hope for in this life.

If you wanted quick sex or a dirty fix or, God help you, a hamburger, that was where you went to get it. Here

This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Desde luego, la ciencia ha logrado cosas maravillosas, pero yo preferiría, con mucho, ser feliz.

there's more to life than love. You can't survive on love. You can't have the important things in life just because of love.

If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.