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Quotes About Fulfillment

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.
~ Poul Anderson
A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
~ John Eldredge
Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
~ Jules Michelet
A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
~ Karl Kraus
Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.
~ Robert S. de Ropp
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
~ Samuel Johnson
The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.
~ Thomas Raymond Kelly
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
~ William Cowper
A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.
~ William Manchester
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded
~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.
~ David O. McKay
Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
~ Fiona Apple
If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
~ Gautama Buddha
A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.
~ George Orwell
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
~ Thomas Hardy
The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.
~ Abraham Maslow
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.
~ Chaim Potok
A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
~ Chaim Potok
Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.
~ Edgard Varese
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
~ Epicurus