Quotes About Fulfillment

It wasn't so much that she and Penn set out to practice Zen marriage equality and perfect-balance parenting. It was just that there was way more to do than two could manage, but by their both filling every spare moment, some of what needed to got done.

Because you know what's even better than happy endings?" "What?" "Happy middles.

It's nice when people have needs you can meet.

Perhaps desire will never be fulfilled. But to live is only worth the effort if you live in hope.

It's not the having that matters to you, am I right? So you can imagine living your whole life beside me, in a state of unfulfilled desire, and that's acceptable to you because it is desire itself that gives you joy.

Whoop! 6K words, 21 pages, and 8 miles on the treadmill -- DONE! #ProductiveDay #LetThereBeIceCream

Men. Who needs them when you can have dogs?

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.

He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.

When we persue happiness for it's own sake, it's like chasing the end of a rainbow. It will always elude us. It is when we're committed to some higher purpose that happiness somehow breaks through and comes to dwell with us.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Live up to your potential, not down to others expectations.

Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.

From the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and ... the fulfilling of those desires is the fulfilling of creation.

man becomes a little cog in the machine, and, aware of this, his one preoccupation is to become a bigger cog. —Max Weber,

von Moltke's definition of victory: "the highest goal attainable with available means.

I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

Eat, drink, smoke, swim in the ocean, play tennis, golf, and poker, watch polo, read trash, listen to pop singers, occasionally attend the theatre, opera, ballet, charity bashes, and private shindigs, buy clothes and trinkets, write to old friends, party with new friends, and sleep. I think that about covers it.

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.

Faire une architecture c'est faire une créature. Etre rempli se remplir s'être rempli éclater exulter froid de glace au sein des complexités devenir un jeune chien content. Devenir l'ordre. ...