Quotes About Fulfillment

CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

The mystics say that as soon as you give it up, you can have it. That may be true, but who wants it when you don't want it.

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on—series polygamy—until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment.

No tengo lo que quería, eso es verdad, pero quiero lo que tengo.

If you act only on what you should do without heed for what you want to do, you're nothing more than a machine, a phenomenon.

There is much more of God available than we have ever known or imagined, but we have become so satisfied with where we are and what we have that we don't press in for God's best.

O plano satânico consiste em nos manter tão cheios de lixo, que não tenhamos fome de Deus, e isto tem funcionado muito bem por séculos. O inimigo tem nos feito acostumar a sobreviver em uma prosperidade terrena, porém, em uma mendicância espiritual.

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It'll settle you.' 'I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

this is the it you've been looking for

A woman is an important somebody and sometimes you win the triple crown: good food, good sex, and good talk. Most men settle for any one, happy as a clam if they get two. But listen, let me tell you something. A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.

You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to paint, photograph or even remember it. It is enough.

You your best thing, Sethe.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses- young loving.

His first earned purchase made him glow, never mind the turnips were withered dry. That was when he decided that to eat, walk and sleep anywhere was life as good as it got.

to eat, walk and sleep anywhere was life as good as it got.

She went to bed with men as frequently as she could. It was the only place where she could find what she was looking for: misery and the ability to feel deep sorrow.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

She waiting impatiently for him to turn away and settle into a wet skim of satisfaction and light disgust, leaving her to the postcoital privateness in which she met herself, welcomed herself, and joined herself in matchless harmony.