Quotes About Fulfillment

It's great to get an 'F', but you also want to give the sense that there's something outside achievement. I've seen a lot of so-called high-achievers who don't feel they've achieved much.

This ambivalence about the value of cooking raises an interesting question: Has our culture devalued food-work because it is unfulfilling by it's very nature or because it has traditionally been women's work?

There is nothing more satisfying and touching than seeing a woman radiating, blossoming in love.

A man's ultimate fulfillment lies in being bathed in a woman's love, in overflowing radiant response to the love made in her. Man gives to woman who receives, and then woman gives to man who, in turn, receives. A reciprocal cycle of giving and receiving comes into play.

In our families, we are finding that abandoning that sense of masculine entitlement actually enables us to live happier lives.

If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. Mark Twain1

What you don't wish for will always be beyond your reach.

I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Life should be an aim unto itself, a purpose unto itself.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. We seek other conditions because we do not understand the use of our own, and go outside of ourselves because we do not know what it is like inside. Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump.

He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, I have lived.

Whether we are running our home or studying or hunting or following any other sport, we should go to the very boundaries of pleasure but take good care not to be involved beyond the point where it begins to be mingled with pain.

The usefulness of living lies not in duration but in what you make of it. Some have lived long and lived little. See to it while you are still here. Whether you have lived enough depends not on a count of years but on your will.

Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity.

The greatest and glorious masterpiece of a man is how to live with a purpose.

Bir ?ey yapmad?m ne demek? Ya?ad?n?z ya! Bu sizin yaln?z ba?l?ca i?iniz de?il, en parlak, en ?erefli i?inizdir.

Nothing doth sooner breed a distaste or satiety than plenty.

Al wat ik verlang van een boek is dat het mij op een gedegen manier bezighoudt en vermaakt; en voor zover ik studeer ben ik er alleen maar op uit de kennis over mijzelf te verdiepen en te leren hoe ik op de juiste wijze moet leven en sterven.

Hayat?n de?eri uzun ya?anmas?nda de?il, iyi ya?anmas?ndad?r.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.... The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.