Quotes About Fulfillment

The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within.

research discloses that high self-esteem is one of the best predictors of personal happiness

That is true. The virtues that self-esteem asks of us are also ones that life asks of us.

You can no more have too much self-esteem than you can have too much health.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.

She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

I want my happiness! . . . Many, many years have I waited for it! It is late! It is late! I want my happiness!

I felt as if it were better, or not worse, to have compressed my enjoyments and sufferings into a few wild years, and then to rest myself in an early grave, than to have chosen the untroubled and ungladdened course of the crowd before me, whose days were all alike, and a long lifetime like each day.

A kind Providence has so skilfully adapted sex to sex and the mass of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male and female may be moderately happy in the married state.

Nihai analizde, dine bula?an insanlar yaln?zca kendi ki?isel mutluluklar?n?n pe?inde gibidir. Yan?l?yor muyum?

Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.

He had passed beyond the afflictions of this world. Walt Disney had at last attained perfection.

If you want to know the real secret of Walt's success," longtime animator Ward Kimball would say, "it's that he never tried to make money. He was always trying to make something that he could have fun with or be proud of.

Better to be numb than plagued by longing for something that could never be.

The illusion of purpose is critical to a well-adjusted population.

But sometimes you get a career and then you suddenly realize you don't have a life. Or if you stay at home with your family, you suddenly realize that your life is actually everyone else's life, not your own. Either way, when you got all your eggs in one basket, the basket gets heavy. Maybe the eggs start to break.

From now on, I want my life to be about living.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

What does she fear in idleness?

If love of money is the root of all evil, then having money is the root of all boredom. When you can have everything, you find there's nothing you really want. When you can do anything, you find there's nothing you really care to do. You become lazy. Life feels like a boulder you don't want to lift.

She said her life was completed," Trina said. "That's something that none of us will ever experience. Even if we're gleaned someday, it won't be the same, because we weren't born mortal. From this moment on, no one will ever know what it feels like to be complete.