Quotes About Fulfillment

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joy.

I believe humans were born to have joy and to have it more abundantly; that the birthright of everyone is loving, caring, sharing, and abundance.

Joy is your birthright.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

If you have made another person on this earth smile, your life has been worthwhile.

True love always brings joy to ourself and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; not dread your last day, not long for it.

Each golden sunrise ushers in new opportunities for those who retain faith in themselves, and keep their chins up.... Meet the sunrise with confidence. Fill every golden minute with right thinking and worthwhile endeavor. Do this and there will be joy for you in each golden sunset.

Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough, and the old applause.

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be successful, rich and famous, but if those are our goals, we're off on the wrong foot. ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.

All is well that ends well.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mold a pin, or fabricate a nail!

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.