Quotes About Fulfillment

Freedom? What is the good of freedom? Happiness consists only in loving and desiring: in wishing her wishes and in thinking her thoughts, which means having no freedom whatever; that is happiness!

man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread in the sweat of our brows, but because our moral nature is such that we cannot be both idle and at ease. An inner voice tells us we are in the wrong if we are idle. If man could find a state in which he felt that though idle he was fulfilling his duty, he would have found one of the conditions of man's primitive blessedness.

At first, in the bustle of building and settling down, Pahom was pleased with it all, but when he got used to it he began to think that even here he had not enough land.

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The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything. - Well, if that is its aim, I'd rather be a savage.

the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he was leading for this laborious, pure, and socially delightful life.

One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work.

Maybe its because i rejoice over what i have and don't grieve over what i don't have".

If you look for perfection, you will never be content.

happiness that flooded his soul.

Her maternal instinct told her that Natasha had too much of something, and that because of this she would not be happy.

Ninguém está satisfeito com os bens que possui, mas todos estão satisfeitos com a inteligência que têm.

There are two sides to each man's life: his personal life, which is the more free the more abstract its interests, and his elemental, swarmlike life, where man inevitably fulfills the laws prescribed for him. Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

Hayat?n?n bütün izleri sanki ona sar?lm?? ?öyle diyordu: "Hay?r, bizi b?rak?p gitmeyeceksin, ba?ka birisi olmayacaks?n, nas?lsan öyle kalacaks?n: Ku?kular?nla, kendinden sonsuz ho?nutsuzlu?unla, sonuçsuz kalan kendini düzeltme deneyimlerinle, ya?ad???n dü?ü?lerle ve senin için olanaks?z, sana nasip olmayacak sonsuz bir mutluluk beklentisiyle.

And the main thing is," he continued, "that I know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the only sure happiness in life.

to be loved is in your opinion as great a happiness as to love, and if a man obtains it, it is enough for his whole life. it is a misfortune to feel guilty because you do not something you cannot give

He soon felt that the realization of his desires gave him no more than a grain of sand out of the mountain of happiness he had expected.

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

all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.

I won't say life wouldn't be worth living without it, but it would be dull

I am like a hungry man who has been given food. He may be cold, his clothes maybe tattered, he may feel ashamed, but he is not unhappy. Me unhappy? No, this is my happiness.

Levin spent that evening with his betrothed at Dolly's, and was in very high spirits. To explain to Stepan Arkadyevitch the state of excitement in which he found himself, he said that he was happy like a dog being trained to jump through a hoop, who, having at last caught the idea, and done what was required of him, whines and wags its tail, and jumps up to the table and the windows in its delight.

con amor siempre se es feliz, puesto que la felicidad está en uno mismo. Egor

you talk of Bonaparte—why, when he was working toward his goal, he went forward step by step; he was free; he had nothing except his goal to consider, and he attained it. But tie yourself to a woman and you're bound hand and foot—all freedom gone.