Quotes About Fulfillment

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living" might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

I could become a businessman and run some big corporation, I'd scramble and maneuver until I was at the top of everything and what would I have? Nothing.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.

If you had any brains, you'd be in a real career, like selling life insurance.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.

came because I commanded." "You commanded. I came. If you want to think you caused my coming, so be it. But God's commands are the only ones I obey willingly.

you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. Or perhaps it's just that none of us could be happy living with no other company than ourself.

They prayed for it, they want it, but when they got it, they complained.

Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what just living might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

I've had enough adventures," said Noxon, "to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there's nothing wrong. You're not hungry, you're not in pain. Nobody's making any demands on you. Your mind is free to think whatever you want. The only thing that makes boredom unpleasant is if you're impatient for something else to happen.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies. To have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

If our happiness is the purpose of God, … why are so few of us happy?' 'Perhaps he want us to have the happiness that we can only find for ourselves.

The reason for a woman's life," said Sarai, "is the same as the reason for a man's—so that she might have joy.

If our happiness is the purpose of God," said Alai, "why are so few of us happy?

We suddenly find ourselves afflicted with peace, you see. Always a disaster for those whose careers have not reached their natural apex.

If I had any part of you in me," said Han Fei-tzu, "I would not have needed to marry you to become a complete person.

H]e had come to work for what the fee could buy, and not for joy of the work itself.

Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.

It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap.