Quotes About Fulfillment

So, there is no point in speaking about love in our world as we only use one another as per usual. There is no need to reject or despise it, this is our life. For example, partners live together and take care of one another for many years. However, it is necessary to draw a distinction: Ultimately, I do it as a habit which becomes my second nature, out of desire and the egoistic impulses that awaken in me and become fulfilled by it.

Svet nudi pregršt prilika. Prilike na poslu, u ljubavi, za duhovni razvoj i emocionalnu ispunjenost. Vaša misija je da ostanete stalno budni kako vas prilike ne bi mimoišle.

There is nothing more satisfying to me," he said, "than to create a complete self-contained world when a computer is controlling it.

They end when the career ends

For most people, the happiness involved in receiving a desirable object is smaller than the unhappiness involved in losing the same object.

It reflects a general property of the human organism as a pleasure machine. For most people, the happiness involved in receiving a desirable object is smaller than the unhappiness involved in losing the same object.

If you're not interested in the thing, and if you're just in it for the money, then you're not really going to have a sense of achievement.

There is nothing like the ticker tape except a woman – nothing that promises, hour after hour, day after day, such sudden developments; nothing that disappoints so often or that occasionally fulfills with such unbelievable, passionate magnificence.

When you don't know what you want you clutch at everything, thinking that because it's new it will be better, and not realising that a nobody won't be happy with anything.

Each life involves an essential errand; not simply the task of survival, but a life-mission embedded in the soul from the beginning.

was drilled into us that success should not be measured in dollars; the truly successful person creates a family whose members are able to enjoy meaningful lives. And what gives life greater meaning is the opportunity to contribute to the community. Then Dad would lower his voice, as if to emphasize one final point: "No one in our society can have that unless everyone has a chance to achieve the American dream.

Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It's hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them.

Man can live by bread alone when all his energies are devoted to attaining that bread, but once his mind is clear, once he has ceased to labour through all his waking hours to find food, then he begins to think.

The miserable frequently believe that possession of power for its own sake is what has made others more content. They grab such power in many different ways and remain baffled as to why they are just as miserable as they were to begin with.

You spend your lives chasing that which is within you and that which you can find in any other human being - but you will not look for it there - you must follow more glamorous paths - to waste your time in order to discover that you have wasted your time.

Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living.

Life is not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living.

Because what she wanted, I suspect, was a world she could fully participate in, even if it meant not being fully and safely loved.

Do we eventually become what we are originally meant to be?

Could you waste your life on a gift? If you did not use your gift, was it a betrayal?

The spiritual values that are essential to human happiness are being lost or made to seem trivial. Everything is buy, earn, sell

It's tragic to go on desiring when one's old.' There were also the haunting possibilities of promises not fulfilled.

I said before that McDonald's serves a kind of comfort food, but after a few bites I'm more inclined to think they're selling something more schematic than that--something more like a signifier of comfort food. So you eat more and eat more quickly, hoping somehow to catch up to the original idea of a cheeseburger or French fry as it retreats over the horizon. And so it goes, bite after bite, until you feel not satisfied exactly, but simply, regrettably, full.

For as you go on, you'll be getting more calories, but not necessarily more pleasure.