Quotes About Fulfillment

The measure of a man is not what he does for wages but what he does with his free time.

No matter luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you chooe, you'll nevver be totally happy.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?

The people who really, actually loved us, they'd beg us to go. To fulfill our dreams. Practice our craft. And they would love us when we all came back.

With all the lit­tle facts we learned, we nev­er had the time to think. None of us ev­er con­sid­ered what life would be like clean­ing up af­ter a stranger ev­ery day. Wash­ing dish­es all day. Feed­ing a stranger's chil­dren. Mow­ing a lawn. All day. Paint­ing hous­es. Year af­ter year.

All these stupid rocks, I say, what's your goal? This isn't about getting something done, Denny says. It's about the doing, you know, the process. But what are you going to do with all these rocks? And Denny says, I don't know until I collect enough. But what's enough? I say. I don't know, dude, Denny says, I just want the days of my life to add up to something.

Her goals had been the goals of radical women a century ago: to become a lawyer . . . to compete toe-to-toe with men. But like any second-hand goal, it felt like a burden. It had already been fulfilled ten million times over by other women. Penny wanted a dream of her own, but she had no idea how that dream would look.

After you've been to fight club, watching football on television is watching pornography when you could be having great sex.

Power, money, food, sex, love. Can we ever get enough, or will getting some make us crave even more?

Raymond K. K. Hessel, your dinner is going to taste better than any meal you've ever eaten, and tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of your entire life.

Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan.

No matter luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you chooe, you'll never be totally happy.

Nobody lay awake at night wondering if the wheat they'd raised was truly happy and fulfilled being made into bread.

I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day.

I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day... Tombstone isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

everybody thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

Söylemeye çal??t???m ÅŸey ÅŸu: Buras? Amerika. Otuz bir çekmekle baÅŸlars?n?z, grup sekse kadar ilerlersiniz. Önce biraz ot içersiniz, sonra eroine terfi edersiniz. Kültürümüz böyle; daha büyük, daha iyi, daha güçlü, daha h?zl?. Anahtar kelime: ilerleme.

It's the last frontier to conquer, other people, strangers, the jungle of their arms and legs, hair and skin, the smells and moans that is everybody you haven't done. The great unknowns. The last forest to devastate. Here's everything you've only imagined.

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

Un minuto era suficiente, dijo Tyler; hay que trabajar duro para lograrlo, pero por un minuto de perfección valía la pena el esfuerzo. Lo máximo que podías esperar de la perfección era un instante.

And a moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.