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Quotes About Fulfillment

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
~ Normal Mailer
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
~ Robert Southey
Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment.
~ Winifred Gordon
We must have the courage to be happy.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
~ Samuel Johnson
The End of every maker is himself.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.
~ Robert Anthony
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives . . . most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity . . . when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.
~ Jacob Bobart
Decisions determine destiny.
~ Frederick Speakman
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
~ Thomas Merton
I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.
~ Jacqueline Briskin
Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.
~ I Ching
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.
~ Bible
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
~ J. K. Galbraith
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
~ Goethe
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
~ Charles Kingsley
He did it with all his heart, and prospered.
~ Bible
You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
~ Federico Fellini
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
~ Charles Lindbergh
Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
~ G. K. Chesterton