Quotes About Fulfillment

To paraphrase a Rolling Stones song, you can't always get what you want, but you get what you need.

I know how tempting it is to believe that something outside—a great job, meeting Mr. or Ms. Right, winning the lottery— can make you feel okay and mollify envy. For a while these may seem to work, but an outer fix alone, no matter how gratifying, can't sustain self-esteem.

Delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.

Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

A vágy fejl?désre ösztönöz; a fejl?dés új vágyat szül.

Az a helyzet, hogy sokan kerül? úton találják meg a vágyat. Ha a vágy nem találja meg önt, akkor önnek kell elindulnia, hogy megkeresse, és ez az út azért különösen nehéz, mert a cél ismeretlen. A lényeg mégis az, hogy útnak induljunk.

Az unalom – írja Tolsztoj – a vágy utáni vágy." A vágynak ez a hiánya éppúgy a helyéhez szögezi az embert, mint bármilyen szorongás. Akármennyire is unalmas és fájdalmas a kényelmi zónánk, ha végignézünk a lélektani láthatáron, és semmi nem hívogat, egy helyben maradunk.

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown's most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

There is no ache more Deadly than the striving to be oneself. —Yevgeniy Vinokurov

Most people who choose to do something on the basis of what other people need make themselves misera­ble.

I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.

Being an adult--was this it? Doing the thing you most in your life didn't want to do, and doing it with a shrug?

We get our dreams told to us. Girls. Every day.

And the biggest reward was reaping the kind of life I deserved.

Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.

You never know what you can do," he says, "until you get it done.

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

If money does not make you happy, give it back

Nu exist? paradis, dar trebuie s? facem a?a ca s? merit?m s? existe unul.

Quand je pense à tous les livres qu'il me reste à lire, j'ai la certitude d'être encore heureux .