Quotes About Fulfillment

Dad says that the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it - Calvin

Calvin: If you could wish for anything, what would it be? Hobbes: A big sunny field to be in. Calvin: A STUPID FIELD?! You've got that now! Think BIG! Riches! Power! Pretend you could have ANYTHING! ... Calvin: Actually, its hard to argue with someone who looks so happy. Hobbes: Z

Day says the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it.- Calvin

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Programming is like sex: It may give some concrete results, but that is not why we do it.

Programming is like sex: It may give some concrete results, but that is not why we do it. – apologies to Richard Feynman

The key to success is playing to people's strengths.

Your (true) significance may remain forever obscure (a mystery) to you, but rest assured that you are fulfilling your purpose if you commit yourself to the highest advantage of others.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

God is enough for them.

If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.

Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

The ordinary life of men is like that of saints. They all seek satisfaction, and differ only according to the object in which they locate it.

What kind of man had the Messiah to be, since through him the sceptre was to remain for ever in Judah, but at his coming the sceptre was to be removed from Judah? To ensure that seeing they should not see and hearing they should not hear

This is how the whole of our life slips by. We seek repose by battling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome we find rest is unbearable because of the boredom it generates. ... We can't imaging a condition that is pleasant without fun and noise.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.

Man is full of wants; he loves only those who can satisfy them all.

That was the thing about Phoebe: She seemed to need more love, and so somehow you generated more love. And all that extra love moving through you, it was like a drug, it was pure ecstasy, filling you up and then flowing into her, and then coming back to you again, creating this vortex of incredible bliss.

Success means you're going to have better problems. I'm very happy with the problems I have now.

Canadian entrepreneur John Warrillow, who has started five businesses and sold four of them. "I don't believe you are really an entrepreneur until you've exited, because you haven't completed the cycle. You're still standing on third base. It is not about starting. Anyone can start a business. Until you've actually sold one, you haven't touched all the bases.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.