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Quotes About Fulfillment

Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.
~ George Foreman
I made someone's day better. Today wasn't a complete loss.
~ Ilona Andrews
You have to let your people take pride in a job well accomplished and recognize them for it. You will get better results.
~ Ilona Andrews
We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.
~ Ilona Andrews
People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders. Doing as you're told.
~ Ilona Andrews
It was as if part of his life was so bleak and dark that he felt the need to live the rest of it to its fullest, squeezing every bit of fun and happiness out of it.
~ Ilona Andrews
You are not meant to be at peace. We, the human beings, are meant to live life to its fullest. We are meant to experience it all—sadness, disappointment, rage, kindness, joy, love. We are meant to test ourselves. It is painful and frightening, but this is what it means to be alive. You are hiding from life here. This isn't peace. This is a slow, deliberate suicide." He
~ Ilona Andrews
Arland looked at me as if seeing me for the first time. Yes, the princess you were expecting put on her armor and left to kill the dragon. So sorry.
~ Ilona Andrews
Sesuatu untuk dikerjakan, seseorang untuk dicintai, sesuatu untuk diharapkan. Itulah kebahagiaan.
~ Immanuel Kant
Cuanto más viene a ocuparse una razón cultivada del propósito relativo al disfrute de la vida y la felicidad, tanto más alejado queda el hombre de la verdadera satisfacción.
~ Immanuel Kant
Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
~ Immanuel Kant
A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.
~ Ingvar Kamprad
Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.
~ Ingvar Kamprad
Alla fine, tutte le passioni sono tragiche, tutti i desideri maledetti, perché si ottiene sempre meno di quel che si è sognato...
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Cómo había que apresurarse en vivir, Dios mío, en agradar a los hombres, en amar... El dinero, los vestidos y los coches bonitos, ¿de qué servía todo eso sin un hombre en tu vida, un pretendiente, un joven amante?
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Chip frowned and looked at Lilac. She was packing books into the carton, not looking at him. He looked back at King and sought words. 'It would still be worth knowing,' he said. 'Being happy or unhappy – is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness – a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.
~ Ira Levin
My te? musimy wypeÅ'ni? nasze zadanie, co oznacza miÄ™dzy innymi pilne oglÄ…danie telewizji i Å›mier? w wieku 62 lat. A caÅ'a wolno??, o której mo?emy marzy?, to fajka, parÄ™ dowcipów i trochÄ™ nadprogramowego pieprzenia. Nie tra?my tego, co mamy, dobrze?
~ Ira Levin
What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.)
~ Iris Murdoch
The chief requirement of the good life', said Michael, 'is that one should have some conception of one's capacities. One must know oneself sufficiently to know what is the next thing. One must study carefully how best to use such strength as one has. ... One must perform the lower act which one can manage and sustain: not the higher act which one bungles.
~ Iris Murdoch
I may add here that one of the secrets of my happy life is that i have never made the mistake of learning to drive a car. I have never lacked people, usually women, longing to drive me withersoever I wanted. Why keep bitches and bark yourself?
~ Iris Murdoch
They really wanted to remain always in their own house and their own garden. There are such people.
~ Iris Murdoch
I believe that unfulfilled frustrated people probably spend a lot of their lives in pure fantasy-dreaming. This can I am sure be a great source of consolation though not always harmless.
~ Iris Murdoch
Oh if only only only we could be happy and ordinary like other people.
~ Iris Murdoch
Mary did not believe in analysing herself, and she had left vague the notion that sometimes came to her that this anxious unfulfilled sort of loving was the only kind of which she was capable.
~ Iris Murdoch