Quotes About Fulfillment

Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?

I have lost my relish for living. I am apathetic and most of the time want nothing, except to understand why there hasn't been more happiness here. Is it like this for everyone? Is this all you get? Is this the most there could be?

Here it is self-evident that public admiration and monetary reward are of the same nature and can become substitutes for each other. Public admiration, too, is something to be used and consumed, and status, as we would say today, fulfils one need as food fulfils another: public admiration is consumed by individual vanity as food is consumed by hunger.

E che cos'altro è, infine, questo ideale della società moderna se non l'antico sogno del povero e dell'indigente, che può avere un fascino finchè rimane sogno, ma diventa il paradiso di un pazzo non appena è realizzato?

La richiesta universale di felicità e infelicità largamente diffusa nella nostra società sono i segni più convincenti che viviamo in una società dominata dal lavoro, ma che non ha abbastanza lavoro per esserne appagata.

Public admiration, too, is something to be used and consumed, and status, as we would say today, fulfils one need as food fulfils another: public admiration is consumed by individual vanity as food is consumed by hunger.

Desire is truly directed toward a transcendent, transmundane future because it rests ultimately on the desire for an everlasting happy life.

Dios nos ha hecho para sí, y nuestros corazones nunca encontrarán reposo y satisfacción perfecta hasta que no lo encuentren en Él.

Know what you need, and if it crosses your path, take it.

Perfect obedience would be perfect happiness, if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying.

Having a talent isn't worth much unless you know what to do with it.

I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you sorrow, my pretty princess.

But if the star should set, even while I am penning these lines, be it so; still I can say it has shone, and I have received a rich portion.

Laura Ingalls Wilder. She published the first book in the Little House on the Prairie series at age sixty-five.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

It's important to like what you're doing. Choosing a profession is the most important decision you'll ever make—more important even than choosing a spouse.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfillment when you're starving. It is good to remember that.

Some people claim that money is the root of all evil. Could be. Others say that money can't buy you happiness. That may be true. But if you handle it right, money buys you freedom and time, and those are a lot more tangible than happiness

If a man had enough to eat, he'd want to grow a second mouth.' He also had a dirty way of saying it, but I won't repeat it here." Kat

I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work.