Quotes About Fulfillment

Who will present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.

Everyone only goes around the track once in life, and if you don't enjoy that trip, it's pretty pathetic.

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

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

True happiness consists in making others happy.

Better be happy than wise.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

If you get to participate with a group of artists and make something that's really truthful, that's about the highest you can go, in my opinion.