Quotes About Fulfillment

Mother: "Rumi wrote that…roughly…the only thing that will be with you to your grave is your work. Only your work will speak for you after you're gone." There

By the time I left New York, I knew that success and failure are silly terms in which to speak of living a life.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

Account no man happy till he dies.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

Momentary pleasures of hedonism are distinct from deeper and more lasting satisfaction; and in order to achieve such satisfaction, we need to reflect on who we are and what our lives are for. We cannot be fully human without thinking about what being human means.

From then on, my idea of grace is fulfilling your talent completely, and my only idea of sin is misusing that gift. The dread of not becoming completely what you can be is so strong that sometimes later in life it will paralyze me. How horrible to do the wrong thing, the thing that doesn't express your essence - and how horrible to fall short of your powers, or to discover that they might be more meager than their seemingly limitless potential!

If you want something enough you usually get it. But you have to take what goes with it.

She made life… big for me

Felicity followed felicity.

But in the evening, when at last she had a moment alone, she slipped into the library and leaned her head against the mahogany steps she had climbed the day she knew she was going to the Amazon. The dream she had dreamed there had been a true one. She had found a land whose riches she had never before imagined, and she had found Finn.

There's people who make their living with animals," she said. "Naturalists they're called. You could be one of them." "From then on my father knew what he wanted to do," said Finn. "He wanted to get as far away from his family as it was possible to go, and live with animals." When you know what you want you usually get it.

El amor apasionado implica dolor y ese dolor no nos debe atormentar. En palabras de Franzen, "el dolor duele pero no mata. Si uno considera la alternativa —un sueño anestesiado de autosuficiencia que la tecnología ampara—, el dolor surge como producto e indicador natural del estar vivo en un mundo que resiste. Vivir una vida entera sin dolor es no haber vivido".

your outer will power may also have succeeded to build an eventful outer life that fills the void to a degree as long as you do not hold still. However, this is but temporary peace before the storm.

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Setelah kebijaksanaan akan muncul kebahagiaan.

some people go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain; and

I've never done a job that I didn't think was a stretch." -Sandra Day O'Connor

Your happiness is always worth it! No matter what.