Quotes About Fulfillment

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

We are sent into this world for some end. It is our duty to discover by close study what this end is and when we once discover it to pursue it

How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements... and into dreams that we can make come true.

Sometimes you are in just the right place.

how can I say how grateful I am for what I've been able to do and be. How can I ever express my gratitude enough?

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

When at last I left him I ran all the way home. I laughed, I talked to myself, I wanted to shout and sing, and I found it very difficult not to tell my parents how happy I was, that my whole life had changed, and that I was no longer a beggar but as rich as Croesus.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who shall complain. Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt, yet I weep not nor even scold: The sun is food enough for me, 't is large, and has not yet grown cold.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

Un instante placentero y desbordante de vida gloriosa vale más que toda una existencia en las sombras.» Y

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

Voll Verdienst, doch dichterisch, wohnet der Mensch auf dieser Erde.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

Each day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.