Quotes About Fulfillment

There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I had been born in order to fill the great need I had of myself.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action… [L'être humain] n'existe que dans la mesure où il se réalise, il n'est donc rien d'autre que sa vie

Happiness is not doing what you want but wanting what you do.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realises himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not a question of virtue but of effectiveness. There is no heaven. There's work to be done, that's all. And you must do what you're cut out for; all the better if it comes easy to you. The best work is not the work that takes the most sacrifice. It's the work in which you can best succeed.

One always dies too soon -- or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up.

how nice it is to know you are so profoundly happy, it's had me beaming all day.

There is something I longed for more than all the rest – without realizing it properly. It wasn't love, heaven forbid, nor glory, nor wealth. It was... anyway, I had imagined that at certain moments my life could take on a rare and precious quality.

what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.

El hombre no es nada más que su proyecto, no existe más que en la medida en que se realiza, no es, por lo tanto, más que el conjunto de sus actos, nada más que su vida.

I'm not writing my book on Rollebon any more; it's finished, I can't write any more of it. What am I going to do with my life?

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that's going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

Life is about work. Work is about life. And both are about people.