Quotes About Fulfillment

A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.

What is once well done is done forever.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.

There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon

Dù s?ng hay ch?t, chúng ta ch? khao khát cái th?t. N?u chúng ta Ä'ang th?t sá»± ch?t, chúng ta hãy nghe ti?ng n?c h?p h?i trong c? h?ng, và c?m th?y l?nh ? t? chi; n?u chúng ta Ä'ang s?ng, chúng ta hãy Ä'i làm công vi?c c?a mình.

Lidé dospÄ›li tak daleko, že ?asto strádají ne z nedostatku vÄ›cí potÃ…â"¢ebných, nýbrž z nedostatku vÄ›cí nadbyte?ných.

When a man is warmed by the several modes which I have described, what does he want next? Surely not more warmth of the same kind, as more and richer food, larger and more splendid houses, finer and more abundant clothing, more numerous, incessant, and hotter fires, and the like. When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now, his vacation from humbler toil having commenced.

When he has obtained those things which are necessary in life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now.

Happiness writes white.

You will find as you look upon your life that the moments that you truely live are the moments you have done things in the spirit of love

Love is the fulfilling of the law. Did you ever think what he meant by that? In those days men were working the passage to Heaven by keeping the Ten Commandments, and the hundred and ten other commandments which they had manufactured out of them. Christ came and said, I will show you a more simple way. If you do one thing, you will do these hundred and ten things, without ever thinking about them. If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.

There is no happiness in having and getting, but only in giving . . . half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness.

What is left to Lust when its cravings at last subside, as subside in the end they will? It is alone. It has died. It has made no bonds and is in the desert that it has made, with no longer even a craving.

Enough is equal to a feast.

There is no limit to the amount of work to be done as long as any human need or wish that work could fill remains unsatisfied.

No hay límite al trabajo por hacer, mientras haya necesidad o deseos humanos insatisfechos, que el trabajo pueda atender.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.

It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything. 

Besides, he was a philosopher; he smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment, and in the fulness of time he got used to it.