Quotes About Fulfillment

From CATS ARE KIND "A man said to the universe, 'Sir, I exist!' 'Excellent,' replied the universe, 'I've been looking for someone to take care of my cats.

The directive to "fill the earth" (Gen. 1:28) is not primarily a reproductive command. The "filling" of the earth is a cuh«re/activity.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

The world's a better place since I chose music.

There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

In the place of the things I have denied myself, I have things that mean more to me than sex, fun and happiness ever could.

You'll end up right where you're supposed to be. Don't be surprised when you get there. Everything you did was a step in that direction. There is no such thing as bad luck.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

I'd learned what the word 'happy' meant. It meant there was no weight in your belly, and if you asked yourself how you felt, the answer spontaneously came back: good .

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread. -Henry Stevens (Posted on Twitter by @FSG_Books Farrar,Straus&Giroux

Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

He knew that all was well, because he had done the best that he could, from day to day. He had been true to the light that had been given to him. He had looked for more. And if he had not found it, if a failure was all that came out of his life, doubtless that was the best that was possible. He had not seen the revelation of "life everlasting, incorruptible and immortal." But he knew that even if he could live his earthly life over again, it could not be otherwise than it had been.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

I had rather be a pot-bellied seed cowcumber, flung carelessly on a wood pile to ripen, than tew be an old bachelor.

It seems incredible that a man possessing so many conditions of happiness should be not only so little happy, but clearly does not see the reason why he should exist at all. It

either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it...