Quotes About Fulfillment

In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.

Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.

Amœbas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart, And started Sex. And Sex has thrilled the earth From then to this, Producing grief and mirth And pain and bliss. Through Sex the seedling wakes To cleave the ground; 'Tis really Sex that makes The world go round...

At a certain point, some of us just sit down and watch the rest of our lives go by. Don't let it happen to you!

Life doesn't hand out ribbons for best-lived. It's an internal decoration.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough; and when you have enough, you have self-respect.

Lust will curdle like milk if you don't keep using it up.

After satisfaction, desire reposes in a cool and lucid sleep.

There may be some things better than sex, and some things may be worse. But there is nothing exactly like it.

During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

The goal of life: simple but not empty.

Every day you spend without a smile is a lost day.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

Work is not peripheral to women's sense of Mastery, it is central. Women do not fully develop their capacities if they function primarily in the sphere of feelings and emotion; the idea that a man is what he does and a woman is what she feels is archaic. If work per se is important to a woman's well-being, so too is the quality of her work life.

The more a woman likes her job, the better her self-image and the more she enjoys her life.

The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships.

The Sayings of Confucius: "At fifteen I thought only of study; at thirty I began playing my role; at forty I was sure of myself; at fifty I was conscious of my position in the universe; at sixty I was no longer argumentative; and now at seventy I can follow my heart's desire without violating custom."1

Those flowers! How wonderful it would have been if they had been hers! If she had been a girl with friends who could send farewell greetings in such a costly style! Why, all these gifts, the wedding that had preceded them, had been but the fulfillment of her childish fairy dreamings—all the things she had most wished for in life—and now they had come, and how empty they were! How one's heart could starve in the midst of plenty!

There is no life apart from Christ. Perhaps the reason you are dissatisfied with life is because you've been seeking it apart from Him and all you have been getting is an imitation.

Was it just that the right man hadn't come along? Or did I simply not want to get married? The truth was probably a combination of the two. I hadn't yet met a man who interested me for any extended period of time, nor had I met one who seemed to offer a life that could be any more enjoyable than the one I was leading on my own. The problem was that married life seemed to me likely to be a lot less enjoyable than the one I'd built for myself.

The whole meaning of my life, which was jammed until midnight with fifteen different jobs and places, was writing. It took me a long time to know that, but I know it now.

The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.

Se aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca ficaria satisfeito.