Quotes About Fulfillment

I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men.

Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

Happiness is action.

I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world, we must do something.

To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.

Happiness walks on busy feet.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

The busiest man is the happiest man.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.

This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.