Quotes About Fulfillment

Some things can't be ravished. You can't ravish a tin of sardines. And so many women are like that: and men. But the earth...!

You had to take it out some way or other, your youth, or it ate you up. But what a ghastly thing, this youth! you felt as old as Methuselah, and yet the thing fizzed somehow, and didn't let you be comfortable. A mean sort of life! And no prospect!

The salt, bitter passion of the sea, its indifference to the earth, its swinging, definite motion, its strength, its attack, and its salt burning, seemed to provoke her to a pitch of madness, tantalizing her with vast suggestions of fulfilment.

Si rese conto, ora, che la dea-cagna del successo, aveva due grandi appetiti: uno era la fame di adulazione, di lusinghe, di carezze e moine che le davano gli artisti e gli scrittori. Ma l'altro era più feroce, era fame di carne e di ossa. E la carne e le ossa per la dea-cagna del successo, erano forniti dagli uomini che facevano denaro nelle industrie.

Money one always wanted.

Look here, my dear child'—and Lady Bennerley laid her thin hand on Connie's arm. "A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. Believe me!" And she took another sip of brandy, which maybe was her form of repentance.

Clifford had never been primarily out for money, though he made it where he could, for money is the seal and stamp of success.

And what then? What did life offer apart from the care of money? Nothing.

I don't over-eat myself and I don't over-fuck myself.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry, and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

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What is it then, that they want, that they are forever rampant and unsatisfied, the king of beasts and the defender of virgins? What is this Crown that hovers between them, unattainable?

The true liberty will only begin when Americans discover IT, and proceed possibly to fulfill IT. IT being the deepest whole self of man, the self in its wholeness, not idealistic halfness.

Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hearts and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end.

You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.

The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Can any man possibly be a success who is paying for business advancement with stomach ulcers and heart trouble?

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

We already know enough to lead perfect lives.

Compared to what we ought to be," said the famous Professor William James of Harvard, "compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

People work for money but go the extra mile for praise, recognition, and rewards.