Quotes About Fulfillment

And we'll strive to please you every day.

Those palates who, not yet two summers younger, must have inventions to delight the taste, would now be glad of bread, and beg for it.

Better thou hadst not been born than not t' have pleased me better.

What pleasure, sir, find we in life to lock it / From action and adventure?

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)

Maybe that's the key to happiness—being sort of dumb, not wanting to know any of the answers.

Writing for me is the hardest thing in the world, but also a thing which, once completed, is the most satisfying. ... I am no prodigy but, Fate willing, I think I can produce art.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started every day.

People who have rediscovered their capacity to create inner satisfaction are far less likely to get trapped in a mindset of scarcity and more likely to use their innate creativity to expand the pie.

that gratitude for life came from being happy

Feelings of dissatisfaction are the language that your needs use to communicate with you.

Piece by piece, each fit perfectly until the puzzle was complete. It could not have happened without the help of an unseen power.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing

I believe that service lies in this--that each of us should use in the highest way, to the very widest possible extent, the abilities and powers they have been given. I believe that to be content with humbler service, when one is able to stand greater responsibility, is only cowardice.

To all of us comes that moment in life when we are literally tapped on the shoulder to do a very special thing unique to ourselves and our talents. What a pity if that moment finds us unprepared.

Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things.

Life seemed to be teaching him that the satisfaction of most appetites carried in them the seeds of frustration, that it was the common delusion of all men to imagine otherwise.

He found, quite to his surprise, that he was happy. Not merely happy in Demelza's happiness but in himself. He couldn't think why. The condition just existed within him.

If we lived for ever, who would look forward eagerly to tomorrow? If there were no darkness, should we so appreciate the sun? Warmth after cold, food after hunger, drink after thirst, sexual love after the absence of sexual love, the fatherly greeting after being away, the comfort and dryness of home after a ride in the rain, the warmth and peace and security of one's fireside after being among enemies. Unless there were contrast there might be satiety. He

Marnie, I won't say, Make him happy, but I will say, Be happy yourself. I think you're capable of much more than you think

Seeking perfection, Ross . . . in life it's dangerous, for it makes the less than perfect seem less than enough. Time is not indefinite.

To hear the young talk today you would think no one had had any excitement in the past, any heartaches, any problems, any bitter frustrations or heady fulfilment. The young of today were more than a shade tedious; pompous, self-centred, so sure that their concerns were the first important ones that had ever happened. They had no perspective. no sense of proportion. Perhaps it was necessary to be old to acquire a true sense of proportion. It was small consolation but it was something.

life holds only two or three things worth the having, and if you possess them the rest don't matter, and if you do not possess them the rest are useless.