Quotes About Fulfillment

Once I realized I was old enough to die, I decided that I was also old enough not to incur any more suffering, annoyance, or boredom in the pursuit of a longer life.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Whatever you want the most, it's going to be the worst thing for you.

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.

What do you think people want, if it's not greatness and to be remembered for all time? Mostly? I believe people want to eat a good lunch, and then take a good piss.

A novel has to entertain -- that's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page.

Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're happy and in love and content with your life, you can't remember how you ever could have felt cheated by fate.

A mother's unfulfilled ambitions lie heaviest on her daughters.

And fairly enough she thought, for that was the way of the world. A road was to be driven upon. The candy dish was there to be eaten, money in the bank got spent, people claimed whatever they could get their hands on. Wasn't that more or less automatic? For a human being to do any less seemed impossible.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

You make cheese yourself, she repeated reverently. You are a real housewife. It has taken me decades to get here, but I took that as a compliment.

Moths must fly to his flame and perish gladly.

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittlebush in a dry wind.

don't look for money to buy your life back

I realized that I had come to my own terms with the desert, but my soul was thirsty.

It's true. I'm not a happy-on-the-midlist kind of gal.

the secret of happiness is low expectations.

Nothing was more wonderful than waiting for a happiness you could be sure of.

I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.