Quotes About Fulfillment

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer's life seemed the most inclusive.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

I love to eat, even though it is easy for me not to eat (when no one feeds me, when there is no food around).

Rüyalar?n yasaklanmamas?na hayret ediyorum. Rüya ne büyük bir vaat! Ne büyük zevk! Ne kadar özel! Hem insana bir eÅŸ de gerekmez; kad?n veya erkek, kimsenin iÅŸbirliÄŸine gerek yok. Rüyalar, ruhun tamama ermemiÅŸ cinsel eylemidir.

I think I feel better. I look at everything from the other end—instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

Se spariranno i libri, sparirà la storia, e spariranno anche gli esseri umani ... I libri non sono soltanto la somma arbitraria dei nostri sogni, e la nostra memoria. Ci offrono anche un modello di autotrascendenza. C'è chi pensa che la lettura sia soltanto una forma di evasione: un'evasione dal mondo «reale» di tutti i giorni, verso un mondo immaginario, il mondo dei libri. I libri sono molto di più. Sono una maniera per essere pienamente umani.

A crisis of self-respect. What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work. I'm being wasted by self-pity and self-contempt.

Was it wrong for me to want more than constrained existence? Wrong to hunger for change, new faces, a full life? Surprises to please my eyes and ears?

at age seventy-four, she was asked what had been the outstanding events of her life. She responded, "Work and more work! . . . loving everything terrifically. . . . The outstanding event to me is the doing—which I am still at.

I suddenly realized, money can't buy happiness. But it sure as shit can take it away.

Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live. —Tuck Everlasting

Don't let the things you have to do take over the things you love to do.

used to say you'll never be happy with what you want until you can be happy with what you've got," Cleo

she would never find happiness in trying to please others if she didn't honor her own gifts.

How simple life was when she stopped trying to do what was expected of her and followed her will.

If she hadn't paid the price of her heart, perhaps this gift would never have been hers.

This job made it possible for you to stay home all day and draw pictures.

This whole place started as a dream. I never told you this, but my dreams started here, too. The first time I came to this place, I was able to imagine some sort of life for myself that didn't completely suck. That was huge for me. I can't tell you how huge.

The human heart has a way of holding on for as long as it takes, until it has been fulfilled.

She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true.

They'd had nothing—a rented spot in a trailer park and a car that was older than Mama herself. And yet Margie had never felt deprived. There was a richness to their lives that had nothing to do with the bank account. Their world was built on a foundation of love and trust between the two of them.

I remember she told me she could either spend her time working on a scrapbook about her life, or actually living her life. And she chose to live her life.

You see, I believe some people are born in the place they belong. Others have to go looking for it.