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Quotes About Fulfillment

The lost glove is happy.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
You came into my life-not as one comes to visit (you know, "not taking one's hat off") but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
My little cup brims with tiddles.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
And to fulfill the fish wish of the womb, A school of Freudians headed for the tomb.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impression that I did not manage to be happy.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The evening is the time to praise the day
~ Vladimir Nabokov
the satisfaction of a special Pninian craving.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
It is fun to be present at the coming true of a dream, even if it is not one's own.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Ma l'ultimissimo giro di pista della sua vita era stato felice e gli aveva dimostrato come la morte non sia altro che una questione di stile.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this — with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need — this life is hell.
~ W. E. B. Dubois
What is the real game? It is a game in which the heart is entertained, the game in which you are entertained. It is the game you will win. - Maharaji
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
It's not about the win or the loss; if we're here to experience, then we are free.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
If you reflect upon your own highest moments or peak experiences. You will probably also remember them as moments of great pleasure, even ecstasy.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Cele trei componente stabile ale muncii lor: performanta, invatarea si bucuria. [...] Cele trei componente ale muncii sunt interdependente. Daca, in stradania de a avea performanta, componenta de invatare este ignorata, performanta va scadea inevitabil sau se va opri la un anumit nivel. La fel, daca bucuria lipseste din ecuatia muncii, atat invatarea, cat si eprformanta vor avea de suferit.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
And so it was And is with you: The seed, the flower, The root, the tree, The dream, the you.
~ Langston Hughes
The earth-meaning Like the sky-meaning Was fulfilled.
~ Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that can not fly. Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go life is a barren field frozen with snow.
~ Langston Hughes
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.
~ Lao Tzu
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
~ Lao Tzu
He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.
~ Lao Tzu
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
~ Lao Tzu
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
~ Lao-Tzu