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Quotes About Fulfillment

The Yogis say that the man who has discriminating powers, the man of good sense, sees through all that are called pleasure and pain, and knows that they come to all, and that one follows and melts into the other; he sees that men follow an ignis fatuus all their lives, and never succeed in fulfilling their desires.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Therefore the highest utility for mankind is to find this happiness in the Spirit.
~ Swami Vivekananda
all great incarnations and prophets are such men; that they reached perfection in this one life. We have had such men at all periods of the world's history and at all times. Quite recently, there was such a man who lived the life of the whole human race and reached the end — even in this life. Even this hastening of the growth must be under laws.
~ Swami Vivekananda
all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire.
~ Swami Vivekananda
To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.
~ Swami Vivekananda
T he happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves
~ Swami Vivekananda
Relationships are the Ends, Not the Means.
~ Swen Nater
Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.
~ Swindoll Charles R.
Love is the highest and best use of a life.
~ Sy Montgomery
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
~ Sydney Harris
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Being able to do exactly as one pleases is the surest way to remain perpetually unpleased.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Genuine contentment is found in performing tasks that take us out of ourselves, for a purpose greater than ourselves. Only when the personality is subordinated to a higher goal do we attain the serenity we are looking for.
~ Sydney J. Harris
To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
~ Sydney Smith
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
~ Sydney Smith
we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
~ Sydney Smith
Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it.
~ Sydney Smith
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
~ Sydney Smith
Few of us will ever be famous, I can tell you none of us will be rich. But we will have more important riches –the joy of making the beautiful music.
~ Sydney Taylor
Knowing the truth brings happiness.
~ Sylvia Boorstein
Death is the reward for living
~ Sylvia Browne
I didn't know I was looking for anything until I saw you.
~ Sylvia Day
Day One of my life was the day I met you.
~ Sylvia Day
Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?
~ Sylvia Engdahl