Quotes About Fulfillment

Sin is the failure to reach your potential," he wrote. "Guilt is the unlived life.

Today's work does not make us the persons we can be. Work is simply the price to be paid. Having earned our daily bread, we can turn to our daily play.

The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

Like a woman, possibility makes demands, makes a person go all the way.

No se puede decir más que con espanto el número de hombres que nacen, viven y mueren sin haber usado ni una sola vez su alma

Is this not the collector's exquisite pleasure, that his desire should know no bounds, should reach out into the infinite, should never know full possession which disappoints by its very completeness. O what joy to be able to postpone the fulfillment of desire to infinity!

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

The days you work are the best days.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

I do not like the idea of happyness — it is too momentary — I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happyness.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee."11

But you, Lynet, you deserve something better." Lynet leaned forward, looking into Gaheris's eyes. "I've found something better," she murmured, and then she kissed him.

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.