Quotes About Fulfillment

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan, where do you want to put your efforts. I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.

Let us live, while we are alive!

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

He who demands little gets it.

What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.

The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.

Happy the man who knows his duties!

The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.

If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

No gain satisfies a greedy mind.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.