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Quotes About Fulfillment

I'd gone to her directly from Dr. Shaw's office - gone without an appointment to find out if happiness was a football you caught or something more complicated, something you had to invent.
~ Wally Lamb
He who goes questing for what he wants may discover, along the way, what he needs.
~ Wally Lamb
The secret is to just settle for the shape your life takes... Instead of... always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
~ Wally Lamb
But painting houses wasn't unsatisfying work. You had your good karma jobs, your decent clients. It felt pretty good when you drove away on that last day, paid in full, having restored a little color to someone's shit-brown life.
~ Wally Lamb
People waste their happiness...Everyone's so scared to be happy.
~ Wally Lamb
feels good no matter what
~ Wally Lamb
I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.
~ Walt Whitman
The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
~ Walt Whitman
But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?
~ Walt Whitman
I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.
~ Walt Whitman
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
~ Walt Whitman
he cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one
~ Walt Whitman
The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself, and makes one.
~ Walt Whitman
Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you finding the best or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding also the sweetest and strongest and lovingest, Happiness not in another place, but this place... not for another hour, but this hour
~ Walt Whitman
Soy una infinidad de cosas ya cumplidas y una inmensidad de cosas por cumplir.
~ Walt Whitman
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains?" "Nature remains.
~ Walt Whitman
am to think of you when I sit alone, or wake at night alone; I am to wait--I do not doubt I am to meet you again; I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
~ Walt Whitman
I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete; The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
~ Walt Whitman
I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.
~ Walt Whitman
Not one is dissatisfied . . . . not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not
~ Walt Whitman
I dote on myself...there is that lot of me, and all so luscious. Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy.
~ Walt Whitman
What ever satisfies the soul is truth.
~ Walt Whitman
I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.
~ Walt Whitman
I exist as I am, that is enough, If not other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content.
~ Walt Whitman