Quotes About Fulfillment

Art is just as important as food, 'cause if your soul ain't nourished, you one empty mutherfucker.

Do the best you can, but still feel that is not enough.

It's that...what I want isn't what I need.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

The moral justification of a democratic mandate rest on the fulfillment of its promises and essence.

Storming was what took place in the frantic days at the end of each month as each enterprise tried to fulfil its monthly plan.

There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life's meaning.

In their quest for a life without failure, suffering, or doubt, that is what they achieve: a life empty of all those things that make a human life meaningful.

But two years into our parties, I surveyed the scene from the corner and wondered, 'Why are we having these parties?' What were we making, coming together like that? We were trying to prove that we had everything because we had parties, but I began to feel like we had nothing but parties. If anyone from the future could look back on what we were building, I was sure they would say, 'That could only have been built by slaves

As I was watching, I thought about how unfair it was that she and I had to think about having kids—that we had to sit here talking about it, feeling like if we didn't have children, we would always regret it. It suddenly seemed like a huge conspiracy to keep women in their thirties—when you finally have some brains and some skills and experience—from doing anything useful with them at all.

What a chicken I was. I couldn't bear any aspect of living. Especially that old custom: that you have to live a better life than everyone else.

Why are you all reading? I don't understand this reading business when there is so much fucking to be done.

was thinking hard about something. He loved her intelligence. He told her that she was wasted in teaching, that she should be out there doing something for herself.

You think you can have everything. But you can't.

Life is lived forwards and understood backwards. The mystery of where all the jigsaw pieces fit together is still unfolding and for that I am, and will always be, more than happy

I'm not sure sex qualifies as R and R, but it's a compromise I can live with.

I'm going to come," he whispered, lips against her ear. "Deep, deep inside you.

If you're as intelligent as I think, you'll back away and give him time to examine his true desires. He's so busy fulfilling everyone else's; he has no idea what he wants." "I've been under the impression that he wanted me," Billie said coldly, "or I wouldn't be here.

Heaven itself [...] would be— must be— a coming home.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

Relationships are one thing. I kind of agree with you there. But I'm talking about sex. Don't you have...uh...needs?" "Yes. But I take care of those by myself. I have a very handy vibrator.

Ronnie offered, "I don't want my life to pass me by." Filling Ronnie's glass again, Sissy promised, "It won't." "It's already started. It's whizzing by like a freight train.

Being in one's 50s is a powerful time.

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.