Quotes About Fulfillment

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

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 look back on my life like a good day's work; it is done and I am satisfied with it.

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.

It's our dreams that keep us going, that separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.

Be content with your wages.