Quotes About Fulfillment

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants--more than anything else--to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are--and have always been.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

When you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

basking in the truth that now and at last you are finally rich enough to be given things free.

I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know.

Lonely? How can you be lonely ? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely. In the meantime, stop complaining. You're nearly a man now, and a man has to work. Ever since the world began, men have been doing jobs they didn't like. Why should it be any different for you? You're the seventh son of a seventh son, and this is the job you were born to do. - Mam

Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we choose wisely from life's stories

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

They were long married and had no children;

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

Heureux sont les hommes qui rencontrent soudain, dans la révélation d'un métier, l'assouvissement de leurs désirs jusque là incertains et la règle pour laquelle ils sont faits. Plus heureux encore ceux qui, riches de passions contradictoires, trouvent dans ce métier leur propre clef, la solution de leur être intérieur et le point d'équilibre entre les tendances qui les déchirent !

Je ne veux pas mourir. Je n'ai pas commencé à vivre...

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.