Quotes About Fulfillment

Something good will come out of all things yet--And it will be golden and eternal just like that--There's no need to say another word.

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.

I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest of my life to do it

Il mondo mi deve un paio di cose.

I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest of my life to do it

I wanta go to Tangiers, I want girls, I wanta write the biggest book in the world, I want spring to come, I want, I want-- Wanting, I get; getting, I lose; losing, I suffer; suffering, I die-- NOT WANTING, I DON'T GET NOT GETTING, I DON'T LOSE NOT LOSING, I DON'T SUFFER NOT SUFFERING, I DON'T DIE SUFFERING.

I don't want to be courageous, my emotions are against it; I want to be happy

I hope you get where you're going, and be happy when you do.

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

It is not in what you succeed in doing that you get your joy, but in the doing of it. 

Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.

Man always gets less than he demands from life.

The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This was living., though he did not know it. He was realizing his own meaning in the world; he was doing that for which he was made.... He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet." - Jack London

Man always gets less than he demands from life; and so little do they demand, that the less than little they get cannot save them.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.

The toil of the traces seemed the supreme expression of their being, and all that they lived for and the only thing in which they took delight.

For many years, I didn't feel I'd find anything that I'd like as much as 'Twin Peaks.'

I want at least five kids. I want twins.