Quotes About Fulfillment

It was as if food had been in monochrome and had suddenly appeared for the first time in colour.

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

They want words. They want contact. They want pictures and autographs. Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

just how into being a dad he was, even if he recognized, and was sometimes tortured by the fact, that being a dad meant he couldn't be as productive and immersed in his work as he thought he needed to be. Still, he was a dad, and he loved to tell stories, to anyone who would listen in fact, and

La felicidad de quienes ansían la popularidad depende de los demás; la felicidad de los que persiguen el placer fluctúa con estados de ánimo que no pueden controlar; sin embargo, la felicidad de los sabios surge de sus propios actos libres. Marco Aurelio

Buying a bond only for its yield is like getting married only for the sex. If the thing that attracted you in the first place dries up, you'll find yourself asking, "What else is there?" When the answer is "Nothing," spouses and bondholders alike end up with broken hearts.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." Chesterton's rejoinder? "Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything.

simplicity of choice, and promise of satisfactory results, in terms of psychology as well as arithmetic.

Are you selling something?" "Only happiness.

In breve, eravamo soddisfatti, e il destino è sempre stato nemico della soddisfazione. Il destino inoltre, come mi aveva sempre detto Merlino, è inesorabile.

For Arthur, at last, had come.

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous, and to fulfill it as best two people could was what really mattered.

Ricordo che la sera che ci siamo conosciuti lei disse che qui sperava di fare un uso migliore della sua vita. C'è riuscito?» «È quello che si dovrebbe sempre fare». «Mi dica, che cosa vuole dalla vita?» «Ordine, valore, soddisfazione, amore», disse Levin. «L'amore all'ultimo posto?» «L'amore in ogni momento».

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

In brief, I consider solitude so necessary to happiness

But when love already keeps you warm, then there's no need to look for pleasure anywhere else.

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

Pensei que, quando se deixa passar o momento certo, quando alguém recusou algo tempo de mais, quando nos é recusado algo tempo de mais, esse algo chega forçosamente demasiado tarde mesmo que seja realmente desejado com força e acolhido com alegria.

she certainly didn't nourish herself on promises, but was rooted in the here and now.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.