Quotes About Fulfillment

But body and mind knew alike that he was Piers, that she had given all of herself to him, with nothing held back. She knew it, and she reveled in the knowledge. For all her life she would know that they had been lovers for one brief and glorious night.

un destino que dispone un patrón para la vida de cada uno y nos da opciones, numerosas opciones, mediante las cuales encontrar nuestro patrón y ser feliz.

I will not knowingly empty my life of all meaning. Not just for pleasure. And not for you. It would be a poor exchange indeed.

If all you need is a little temptation, then I am here at your service to provide it, ma'am.

I could not possibly want anything more.

Love was what made life worth living. Not the pursuit of pleasure, but love. Love, which involved the full spectrum of human emotions.

You have a great deal of energy . . . restless energy. You have always been in search of something . . . and have still not found it. Don't settle for anything less than that something even if you still do not know what it is.

And he began to claim his reward in thorough and leisurely fashion.

Did disasters sometimes happen to turn one away from a wrong course into the right one, the one that would bring the most happiness and the greatest fulfillment?

One day I am going to share the sort of love with a man that poets write of.

Sometimes our dreams lead us in the wrong direction and it would be foolish to continue pursuing them out of sheer stubbornness or the fear of disappointing others. There are other dreams waiting to be dreamed—the right dreams, the ones that will lead to contentment.

Some people look forward to going to heaven after they die," he said. "For years after I purchased it, Rose Cottage was the earthly heaven to which I aspired.

She could hardly think of a punishment she would enjoy more.

Since few people arrive at retirement with an understanding that this transition will involve a rethinking of who they are, an interim pattern has emerged, in which travel offers a way of fulfilling deferred daydreams of adventure while the next stage takes shape. [p. 31]

hoped for and had been given as a priest for everything he yearned for and desired as a man.

I want to belong with someone. I want to feel at the center of something, and not the edge. I want children and grandchildren. I don't want to grow old and die, knowing that when I die, there will be no more like me.

Today the clerk in the fancy deli next door asked me how I was, and I said, 'I have deep longings that will never be satisfied.

If you want to be happy for a year, win the lottery. If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.

Maybe he was. Maybe he had something to smile about these days.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled. Like, telling someone you love them. Or giving your money away, all of it. Your heart is beating, isn't it? You're not in chains, are you? There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.