Quotes About Fulfillment

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

Here is the meaning of life: ...to make babies with her, with him, or to find them some other way, but then to raise them up, and watch them do the same thing, generation after generation, so that when you die you know you are permanently a part of the great web of life. That you are not a loose thread, snipped off. (Anton)

La felicidad puede depender tan fácilmente de las cosas útiles como de las inútiles.

Cambiar al mundo es bueno para aquellos que quieren su nombre en los libros. Pero ser feliz... eso es para aquellos que escriben sus nombres en las vidas de los demás y retienen los corazones de otros como el tesoro más preciado.

It was a strange, exhilarating feeling to be with people who didn't want anything from you except your happiness, who were glad just to have you around.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

The living always think that gold can make them happy

He's such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.

Elige un trabajo que te guste y no tendrás que trabajar ni un día de tu vida.

Poor food and water for dinner, a bent arm for a pillow – that is where joy resides. For me, wealth and renown without honor are nothing but drifting clouds.