Quotes About Fulfillment

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

Después de todo, ése era el secreto de la felicidad: disfrutar de cada momento dentro de sus condiciones propias, sin imaginarse otras.

igualaos, cúmplase el roble, cúmplase el leopardo entre dos robles,..

Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable-perhaps everything."-Memories, Dreams, Reflections

I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There's only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating?

I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live.

People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

It came to me that I hadn't known I had been being less than I could have been until then, when I saw there was so much more of the world for me to be myself within.

It came to me that I hadn't known I had been being less than I could have been until then, when I saw there was so much more of the world for me to be myself

Because there is hunger. Like any desire, it's only temporarily satisfied, which calls into question the reliability of satisfaction and whether such a state can be said to exist at all. Anything we eat knows us more intimately than a lover. Not merely the inside of our mouth but the esophagus, stomach, alimentary canal, upper and lower colon, sphincter. Everything we desire, we shit out and leave behind.

Man becomes whole, integrated, calm, fertile, and happy when (and only when) the process of individuation is complete, when the conscious and the unconscious have learned to live at peace and to complement one another.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.