Quotes About Fulfillment

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

My crown is called content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

You can't be envious and happy at the same time.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). - Negative thoughts (judgment, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask it.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

The sun will set without thy assistance.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.

They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree.