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Quotes About Fulfillment

You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.
~ Herb Gardner
He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
~ Horace
The Importance of Using Time Well How pleasant it is, at the end of the day, No follies to have to repent; But reflect on the past, and be able to say, That my time has been properly spent.
~ Ann Taylor
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
~ Susan Ertz
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and schedule his time as though he were about to die.
~ Emile Littre
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
~ Euripides
It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
~ Margaret Bonnano
Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
~ Alban Goodier
If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in tiie course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.
~ W. Beran Wolfe
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
~ Grenville Kleiser
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
~ Grenville Kleiser
Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
~ Benjamin Franklin
To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
~ Joseph Joubert
One day, with life and heart, is more than time enough to find a world.
~ James Russell Lowell
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
No one is content with his own lot.
~ Horace
Man's heart is never satisfied; the snake would swallow the elephant.
~ Chinese proverb
I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.
~ Anonymous
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If solid happiness we prize, within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; the world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut-our home.
~ Nathaniel Cotton
We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
~ Samuel Johnson