Quotes About Fulfillment

Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.

The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.

Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius, according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.

If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement, or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

Man doth not live by bread only.

Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

My generation of Canadians grew up believing that, if we were very good or very smart, or both, we would some day graduate from Canada.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

A wise son maketh a glad father.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

A wife is the joy of a man's heart.