Quotes About Fulfillment

You know as well as I do that any regrets we have are for things we chose not to do, not for the things we chose to do.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

If from morning to night we just took care of one thing after another, thoroughly and completely and without accompanying thoughts, such as "I'm a good person for doing this" or "Isn't it wonderful, that I can take care of everything?," then that would be sufficient.

Ego says: I want someone to fill me up. Spirit says: I'll have someone to help me wake up, to challenge my blind spots and be a companion and playmate on the journey.

You are no longer a young girl who believes that she should be out of life what is best. Just nothing you do not. A couple of times you get lucky and drop you from the sky this or that, accidentally and undeservedly, but most of the things you have to fight it alone and you can enjoy if you get half of what you wanted.

If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Those "feminine charms" we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity—developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process.

This led me very promptly to the conviction that those "feminine charms" we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity—developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process.

This led me very promptly to the conviction that those "feminine charms" we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity—developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process. But Terry came to no such conclusion.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

People thought that when you got old, you wanted your lost youth, or lost love, or men, or sex. But really you wanted work and you wanted money.

This is the only world where I belong, the only place I fit in, the only thing I'm good at... why couldn't it all just stay perfect?

A life lived only for oneself - is a less lived life.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.

Happy is measuring your life against the options and not wanting to change it. It's getting the best of a series of bargains, bad or otherwise.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

I like to think of you not being able to end your suffering,' she said. 'I like to think of you not being able to satisfy your blood-lust,' he said.

some of the best sex I can barely remember.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Mom, I am a rich man.