Quotes About Fulfillment

After 'A Love Extreme,' I thought I must do something that stands up to that - at least. I can't top it. You should never attempt to top something that is magical, because that's just bad magic.

When I quit my internship and started doing standup to pursue my dreams and do that full time - I feel like that's when I 'Americaned.'

Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.

We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

You don't need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.