Quotes About Fulfillment

Because the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.

On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in her life deemed terribly important. Since she had died, everything she was doing on Earth had seemed entirely meaningless. From Liz's point of view, the question of what her life would be was now definitively answered. The story of her life is short and pointless: There once was a girl who got hit by a car and died. The end.

You love being Ruby's mother, but loving Ruby does not stop you from wanting things for yourself.

There's a difference between being alive and living.

There must be more to life than working and swimming and playing Go." "The boredom you speak of," Alabaster said. "It is what most of us call happiness.

Sadie," he said. "Do you know why I want to make a game?" "Of course. Because you foolishly think it will make you rich and famous." "No. It's very simple. I want to make something that will make people happy.

When she was forty, would she lament that she hadn't had sex with more people and partied more? But then, she didn't enjoy many people, and she had never gone to a party that she wasn't eager to leave. She hated being drunk, though she did enjoy smoking a joint every now and then. She liked playing games, seeing a foreign movie, a good meal. She liked going to bed early and waking up early.

No. It's very simple. I want to make something that will make people happy.

The lines mean that one doesn't have to be a god or a king for your life to have meaning.

Once I surrendered to it, all I tasted was the sweetness.

So, I do want to be rich and famous. I am, as you know, a bottomless pit of ambition and need. But I also want to make something sweet.

You are happy and you are bored. You need to find a new pastime.

There's a difference between being alive and living

The boredom you speak of," Alabaster said. "It is what most of us call happiness.

In certain seasons, We may be nourished by The idea of the carrot More than the carrot itself.

A woman should never please other people at the expense of pleasing herself.

They loved him. He was more handsome in front of a crowd; his limp, less apparent; his voice, warm and authoritative. It was as if all these years Sam had been waiting for an audience.

What you call boredom some people call happiness

I suppose we drink and we smoke for the same reasons it is done elsewhere. We must fill our infinite days with something.

The boredom you speak of, it is what most of us call happiness.

Because the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.

No substance," A.J. mutters. "They leave you hungry.

Endings can be happy or sad, I don't care anymore as long as it's earned.

Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.