Quotes About Fulfillment

But what good was greatness if you didn't love?

He had reached the outer limits of what Fun, capital F, could do for him. The cost was way too high, the returns pitifully inadequate.

It's a wasteland out there. Out here. You can do nothing or anything or everything, and none of it matters. You have to find something to really care about to keep from running totally off the rails.

Deja de buscar la siguiente puerta secreta que te lleve a tu verdadera vida, deja de esperar. Ya la tienes; no hay otra. Estás aqui, y más te vale disfrutarla o seguirás sufriendo vayas donde vayas, hagas lo que hagas el resto de tu vida, eternamente.

suit, Quentin knew he wasn't happy. Why not? He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come. He couldn't think what else to do.

I got my hearts desire, he thought, and there my troubles began.

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshipping oneself is the best.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Not how long you live, but how much you have lived, how much meaning your life has absorbed and passed on, is what matters.

To become a full human being is nothing less than a lifetime's task.

research shows that generosity is a cause of lasting happiness,

the reason we meditate is to enjoy our old age.

For high-achieving people, the ultimate reward for great success is not the idleness of retirement. The reward is doing more of the productive things that they love the most, which, as with Doobin, often turns out to make the most financial sense anyway.

We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

As an actor there is an urge to act only if something really interesting comes my way.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.