Quotes About Fulfillment

J'estime que dans toutes les définitions de la vie bienheureuse , il faut faire entrer un instinct d'animal , sans quoi la vie devient fade et sans intérêt

It is not good for men to get all that they wish to get." One may say that Heraclitus values power obtained through self-mastery, and despises the passions that distract men from their central ambitions.

The only cure [for envy] in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is itself a terrible obstacle to happiness

A todos los jóvenes con talento que van por ahí convencidos de que no tienen nada que hacer en el mundo, yo les diría: «Deja de intentar escribir y en cambio intenta no escribir. Sal al mundo, hazte pirata, rey en Borneo u obrero en la Rusia soviética; búscate una existencia en que la satisfacción de necesidades físicas elementales ocupe todas tus energías».

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialized skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: "Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a laborer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.

It is the great reward of losing youth that one finds onseself able to be of use;

La vida buena está inspirada por el amor y guiada por el conocimiento. El conocimiento y el amor son siempre susceptibles de ampliación; por lo tanto, por buena que sea una vida, se puede imaginar una vida mejor. Ni el conocimiento sin amor, ni el amor sin conocimiento, pueden producir una buena vida.

External discipline is the only road to happiness for those unfortunates whose self-absorption is too profound to be cured in any other way.

Again: love is able to break down the hard shell of the ego, since it is a form of biological coöperation in which the emotions of each are necessary to the fulfillment of the other's instinctive purposes.

While animals are content with existence and reproduction, men desire also to expand, and their desires in this respect are limited only by what imagination suggests as possible.

When I said that the good life consists of love guided by knowledge, the desire which prompted me was the desire to live such a life as far as possible, and to see others living it; and the logical content of the statement is that, in a community where men live in this way, more desires will be satisfied than in one where there is less love or less knowledge.

Creo que esta infelicidad se debe en muy gran medida a conceptos del mundo erróneos, a éticas erróneas, a hábitos de vida erróneos, que conducen a la destrucción de ese entusiasmo natural, ese apetito de cosas posibles del que depende toda felicidad, tanto la de las personas como la de los animales.

The happy man is the man who lives objectively, who has free affections and wide interests, who secures his happiness through these interests and affections and through the fact that they, in turn, make him an object of interest and affections to many others.

El animal humano, igual que los demás, está adaptado a cierto grado de lucha por la vida, y cuando su gran riqueza permite a un Homo sapiens satisfacer sin esfuerzo todos sus caprichos, la mera ausencia de esfuerzo le quita a su vida un ingrediente imprescindible de la felicidad.

Como dice Russell, «las personas que son desdichadas, como las que duermen mal, siempre se enorgullecen de ello». Este es el primer obstáculo a vencer si uno pretende intentar ser feliz, dejar de intentar a toda costa ser «interesante».

The modern world unlearned us how to enjoy leisure time, making us think we need to be productive in order to be worthy.

When one cannot satisfy one appetite, one satisfies another

Was there really such a thing as forever? Nay. There was but a moment in time, and those who were wise lived each moment to its fullest, for a moment gone could never come again.

To her all things are poignantly lacking — but she is incapable of desiring anything.

If the faith of all the mothers could blossom to its full fruition, there would be no unsuccessful men in the land.

A Christian is held captive by anything that hinders the abundant and effective Spirit-filled life God planned for him or her.

Your Promised Land is the place where God's personalized promises over your life become a living reality rather than a theological theory.

God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.