Quotes About Fulfillment

Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Contentment is the more serene brother of Happiness.

Our heart is like an unfinished puzzle — that is why we search for the perfect one to complete it.

It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.

Instead of counting your days, make your days count.

Hope is the silver lining of dreams.

Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it.

Humans have forgotten so much... It's so easy for us to live now that our lives have no meaning. So we start looking for something else, something more. Money. A bigger house. A hobby. Church.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.

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

Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather be a streaming meteor than a sleepy and permanent planet. I would rather burn out in a blaze of streaming glory than be stifled like dry rot. I shall use my time.

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

he had lived the existence of a sated aristocrat;

Hay un éxtasis que marca el punto culminante de la vida, y más allá del cuál la vida no puede elevarse.

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

La vida llega a su más alto punto cuando se realiza, con todas las fuerzas de que se es capaz, aquello para lo cual se le dieron cuantos medios necesitaba.

But I ain't got to the point yet. Here it is. I want to make my way to the kind of life you have in this house. There's more in life than booze, an' hard work, an' knockin' about. Now, how am I goin' to get it? Where do I take hold an' begin? I'm willin' to work my passage.

The thing I like most of all is personal achievement--not achievement for the world's applause, but achievement for my own delight.

life is always happy when it is expressing itself

Preferirei essere cenere che polvere! Preferirei che la mia fiamma bruciasse in una vampa brillante piuttosto che venire ricoperto dalla muffa. Preferirei essere un magnifico meteorite, con atomi che bruciano e si infiammano, piuttosto che un pianeta immobile e assopito. La natura dell'uomo è vivere, non esistere. Non ho intenzione di sprecare i miei giorni nel tentativo di prolungarli, voglio viverli.

La obligación real del hombre es vivir, no existir

A vida que é vivida é uma vida com sucesso e o sucesso é como o ar que se respira.

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 - White Fang