Quotes About Fulfillment

knowing that the hour of fulfillment is buried in years of patience — yet willing to labor like that on the mortal wheel.

Try to find the right place for yourself. If you can't find it, at least dream of it.

We must do what we do to satisfy our own hearts... (p. 87)

I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?

Gradually I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter

There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night.

Believe me, I will never desert life until this last hope is torn from my bosom, that in some way my labours may form a link of gold with which we ought all to strive to drag Happiness from where she sits enthroned above the clouds, now far beyond our reach, to inhabit the earth with us.

After so much time spent in painful labor, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.

Do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose. My life might have passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.

Seek Happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. Yet why do I say this? I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed.

Je souhaite ardemment que l'accomplissement de vos désirs ne devienne pas pour vous, comme ce, le fut pour moi, un poison venimeux.

Imparate da me, se non dai miei precetti, almeno dal mio esempio, quanto sia pericolosa l'acquisizione della conoscenza, e quanto sia più felice quell'uomo che ha per mondo la sua città natale, di colui che aspira a una grandezza maggiore di quella che la sua natura gli concede.

But in truth, neither the lonely meditations of the hermit, nor the tumultuous raptures of the reveller, are capable of satisfying man's heart. From the one we gather unquiet speculation, from the other satiety. The mind flags beneath the weight of thought, and droops in the heartless intercourse of those whose sole aim is amusement. There is no fruition in their vacant kindness, and sharp rocks lurk beneath the smiling ripples of these shallow waters.

A]nd if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.

Only now, his own barriers crumbling, did he realize how deep and absolute had been his need for her; and in the very moment of fullest realization she was here and she was his; his anchor, his still center, his searing flame, his peace....

how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

Seek happiness in tranquillity, and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

i que és molt més feliç aquell home per al qual el poble natal és el món sencer que no pas aquell que vol esdevenir més gran del que la seva natura li permet.

Debes crear una mujer para mí, una persona con la cual pueda vivir intercambiando las simpatías necesarias para mi ser. Sólo tú puedes hacerlo; y te lo reclamo como un derecho que no puedes rehusarme.

You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.

how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.