Quotes About Fulfillment

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

Money is the best recipe for happiness.

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Elinor, for shame! said Marianne, money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness? Grandeur has but little, said Elinor, but wealth has much to do with it. Elinor, for shame! Said Marianne. Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it...

He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.  So much the better.  I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do.  I am quite enough in love.  I should be sorry to be more.

Our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for.

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

But, said I, to be quite honest, I do not think I can live without something of a musical society. I condition for nothing else, but without music, life would be a blank to me.

Banii pot aduce fericire numai acolo unde n-o poate aduce nimic altceva. In afara de anumite inlesniri, banii nu pot oferi bucurii adevarate