Quotes About Fulfillment

Our bodies hummed with contentment.

the servantless American cook who enjoyed producing something wonderful to eat—would feel the same way.

Como suena en mi alma la idea de una noche completa en tus brazos

Es algo de lo eterno al goce del minuto lo que tu empeño busca por la ruta encendida de los claros anhelos.

To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ...it is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's garden another dimension. Perfume of life itself.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

You've got to be responsible for your own happiness - you can't expect it to come flopping through the door like a parcel.

Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior.

Isn't the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment's desolate attic?

How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy? Simple: the atomic reaction you expect isn't taking place, the beam with which you are bombarding the particles is on the wrong wavelength.

People prefer to get what they want rather than what they deserve.

It is better to waste your old age than to do nothing at all with it.

Louise Colet was a proto-feminist who committed the sin of wanting to make someone else happy.

Isn't there something between stagnation and heading somewhere?" "Like?" "Like having a nice time. Enjoy the day and all that?

Perhaps Goethe never found the right woman.

She'd been imagining for the last fifteen or more years that if you disappeared, if you abandoned a wife and child, you did so for a better life: more happiness, more sex, more money, more of whatever was missing from your previous life.

Work would be something I jogged along with; love would be my life.

Be approximately satisfied with approximate happiness. The only thing in life which is clear and beyond doubt is unhappiness

Goethe, than whom few of us can hope to live a fuller or more interesting life, stated on his deathbed – he was eighty-two at the time – that he had only ever felt happiness in his life for one quarter of an hour.

Happiness is like the pox. Catch it too soon, and it wrecks your constitution

Happiness depends necessarily on the unreality of one plane of your life: in one area ( emotional, financial, professional ), you should be living beyond your resources.

de todo ello: «Más vale malograr la ancianidad que no saber qué hacer con ella.»