Quotes About Fulfillment

La rosa, no buscaba ni ciencia ni sombra: confín de carne y sueño, buscaba otra cosa. La rosa, no buscaba la rosa.

Yo debo tener esperanzas como de paso, vertiginosas, si es posible, y no pensar demasiado en que se cumplan; ese debe ser, también, el sentido del agua, su inclinación instintiva.

You don't want people to apply to work for you because of the salaries on offer – they should be driven by other desires. But if a salary isn't commensurate with the market, potential winners will not be able to afford to work for you.

Being rich is fine, and at the very least is better than being poor. But it shouldn't be the be-all and end-all of your life, or anyone's life.

I have always felt to be true: that the greatest achievement in life is to work out the terms of one's own salvation, however one may define that term. "Free to make mistakes and be the master of one's own destiny,

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

Hearer (specific identity) 3. Conditions of satisfaction (COS) stated in accordance with the standard practices of a community

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

Progresa el hombre cuando crece su espíritu, pero no cuando engorda su bolsillo o se desboca su ambición.

La felicidad también existe en el presente, en el aquí y ahora del efímero momento que se va volando rápido, sin dar tiempo siquiera de ponerse la mano en el corazón para sentir que sí, que así es, que se es feliz.

Lo que pasa es que la felcidad es una pompa de jabón que da visos, pero que no bien uno la mira se revienta. Uno tiene que ser feliz sin saberlo

La felicidad máxima de Colombia no es el sexo, óiganlo bien, aprovechen que les habla un psiquiatra: es el Éxito. Comprar mucho en el Éxito haciendo la cola más larga y pagando con tarjeta de crédito.

Mi globo se deshizo en el aire y yo, con las manos vacías, aún tendidas hacia lo alto, caí fulminado, lapidado, haciendo tronar las tejas: era san Esteban de los Globos quien caía, el primer mártir de Santa Anita.

Esa polonesa fue una de las ilusiones de mi niñez, y al fin la dominé: como quien domina a su mujer al cabo de diez años. En amor y en música lo que no se da de una vez que no se dé.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Education isn't for being something, boy: education is for enjoying whatever you are. The only thing you have to be in life is yourself.

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

All I ever wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something. That is not madness, is it?

There was no point in anything. No pleasure in being good and clever either, if there was no one to praise and be proud of me. But that felt dangerously close to self-pity, and I would not give in to self-pity.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

The mercy of God does not depend on human virtue for its fulfillment.