Quotes About Fulfillment

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.

Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

And only those who can see above and beyond the American goal of respectable mediocrity can enjoy a life that leads to anything but a struggle to attain that end.

Those were the good mornings, when the sun was hot and the air was quick and promising, when the Real Business seemed right on the verge of happening and I felt that if I went just a little faster I might overtake that bright and fleeting thing that was always just ahead.

Well, he said. I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself.

I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as sitting at a desk writing.

Finding meaning in life is not about looking for a specific goal. That is a fruitless path. It is about seeking a life path that is the right one for you. Decide on the way you desire to live and do all you can to create that life. Only you can define what pathway is best for you and make choices in that direction. That being said, everything is possible, once you strive towards it.

The minute I saw it, I felt that here was the place I'd been looking for.

Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting 'Holy shit, what a ride!

Some friends accused me of whoring after the Infinite. Well, what better whoredom is there?

Today we do not live under a sacred canopy; it is marketing that forms the backdrop of our culture. The message that advertising dins into our conscious and unconscious minds is that fulfillment derives from the things we possess.

We are limited in joy, knowledge, and being, the three things people really want.

If we were to take Hinduism as a whole...and compress it into a single affirmation, we would find it saying: You can have what you want. This sounds promising, but it throws the problem back in our laps. For what do we want? It is easy to give a simple answer- not easy to give a good one. p13

Well, it is always easier to succeed at death.

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.

All you have to do is give people what they want, reflect themselves back into their own eyes, and they will fall over to crush money into your outstretched hand.

o zi f?r? îngheÈ›at? era o zi pierdut?.

I like doing everything fully, getting the most out of everything one does. I think that's the way to live.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Vesper smiled at him. 'I like it,' she said. 'I like doing everything fully, getting the most out of everything one does. I think that's the way to live. But it sounds rather schoolgirlish when one says it,' she added apologetically.

The world is not enough.

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.

There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.