Quotes About Fulfillment

But the bitter thing is, that when I was rich I didn't need what I could have, and now I be poor I can't have what I need!

I determined you should come; and you have come! I have shown my power.

Ah, want of an object to live for - that's all is the matter with me!

More than ever he longed to be in some world where personal ambition was not the only recognized form of progress—such, perhaps, as might have been the case at some time or other in the silvery globe then shining upon him.

A felicidade não depende do que nos falta, mas sim do bom uso do que temos. Thomas Hardy

But mind this, I don't wish 'ee to feel you owe me anything. Not I. What I do, I do. Sometimes I say I should be as glad as a bird to leave the place — for don't suppose I'm content to be a nobody. I was made for better things.

But what is Wisdom really? A steady handling of any means to bring about any end necessary to happiness. Yet whether one's end be the usual end — a wealthy position in life — or no, the name of wisdom is seldom applied but to the means to that usual end.

The secret of happiness lay in limiting the aspirations . . .

Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.

Felicity, therefore (by which we mean continual delight), consisteth not in having prospered, but in prospering

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. —Henry David Thoreau

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves and suffice for our own happiness.

Rich is not having more money. Rich is knowing the secret to getting everything you want in life.

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.

Wahrscheinlich kann man vom Nichtwollen seelisch nicht leben; eine Sache nicht tun wollen, das ist auf Dauer kein Lebensinhalt.

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

Il bene viene sempre troppo tardi, diventa realtà troppo tardi, quando non si è più capaci di goderne.

B?rbatul se îmbat? cu propria dorin??, iar femeia cere È™i aÈ™teapt? s? fie îmb?tat? de dorinÈ›a b?rbatului. De aici provine pentru noi obligaÈ›ia pasiunii, de aici decurge înfior?toarea ruÈ™ine a insensibilit??ii, a neputinÈ›ei de a trezi dorinÈ›a femeii.

Quien se esfuerza por alcanzar lo excelso, nota el ansia de reposar en lo perfecto

Est vrai ce qui convient à l'homme. En lui, toute la nature est concentrée, lui seul a été créé dans toute la nature, et toute la nature n'est faite que pour lui.