Quotes About Fulfillment

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

All wise people say the same thing; that you are deserving of love, and that it's all here now, everything you need. When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness.

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Greediness of getting more, deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.

He has enough who is contented with little.

There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.

Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

True affluence is not needing anything.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.