Quotes About Fulfillment

Her motherly instinct told her that there was too much of something in Natasha, and that it would prevent her from being happy.

in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

You are in despair, because you wish to live for your own happiness.

Why, of course," objected Stepan Arkadyevitch. "But that's just the aim of civilization—to make everything a source of enjoyment.

No man is satisfied with his fortune, but every man is satisfied with his wit.

When Levin thought about what he was and what he lived for, he found no answer and fell into despair; but when he stopped asking himself about it, he seemed to know what he was and what he lived for, because he acted and lived firmly and definitely.

But what desires can always be satisfied despite external circumstances? What are they? Love, self-sacrifice.' He

Well, so you're pleased with your day. And so am I. First, I solved two chess problems, one of them a very nice one — it opens with a pawn. I'll show you.

Totu?i, acum, via?a mea, întreaga mea via??, independent de ceea ce poate s? mi se întâmple într-un moment anume, ea nu numai c? nu e lipsit? de în?eles ca alt?dat?, dar are un sens v?dit: al binelui pe care îl pot pune în ea.

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

He regarded his whole life as a continual round of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him.

those moments when once and for all a man shows his worth and that his whole past has not been in vain but has been a preparation for those moments.

We destroy only because we're spiritually sated. Exactly like children!

I'm inexcusably happy. Something magical has happened to me, like a dream, when you're frightened, panic-stricken, and all of a sudden you wake up and all the horrors are no more. I have waked up. I have lived through the misery, the dread, and now for a long while past, especially since we've been here, I've been so happy!…

I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over.

The ideal is within you, and the obstacle to reaching this ideal is also within you. You already possess all the material from which to create your ideal self. —THOMAS CARLYLE

El fin de la civilización consiste en convertir todas las cosas en un placer.

But that's just the aim of civilization—to make everything a source of enjoyment.

He meditated on the the use to which he should devote that power of youth which is granted to man only once in a lifetime: that force which gives man a power of making himself, or even as it seemed to him - of making the universe into anything he wishes.

To settle the matter in his own mind was one thing but to carry it out was another.

I rejoice in what I have, and don't fret for what I haven't,

On the contrary one must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive, that's not my fault, so I must live out my live the best I can, without hurting others.

If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it.

El secret de la felicitat no és fer sempre el es vol, sinó voler sempre el que es fa