Quotes About Fulfillment

poucas vezes a gente encontra pessoas cuja alegria não seja somente digestiva.

El amor ya está, siempre está. Falta sólo el golpe de gracia —que se llama pasión.

The gradual deheroization of oneself is the true labor one works at beneath the apparent labor, life is a secret mission. So secret is the true life that not even to me, who am dying of it, can the password be entrusted, I die without knowing wherefrom. And the secret is such that, only if the mission manages to be accomplished shall I, in a flash, perceive that I was born in charge of it — every life is a secret mission.

Sometimes—sometimes we ourselves manifest the inexpressive—one does that in art, in bodily love as well—to manifest the inexpressive is to create. In the end we are so happy!

Who will come to gather the fruit of my life? If not you and I myself?

Sofremos por ter tão pouca fome, embora nossa pequena fome já dê para sentirmos uma profunda falta de prazer que teríamos se fôssemos de fome maior.

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded.

I don't have the feeling that I write my books. I have the feeling that my books get written through me and once they have got across me I feel empty and nothing is left.

Nothing that is mine seems to me to deserve my pride: in the seventh grade, I couldn't admire the eighth-grades enough, though the eighth grade seemed to me quite devoid of charm once I was in it. And so on until the day I found myself with a doctorate in something and decorated, and had only scorn for such mediocre privileges. Life grows disenchanting as our dreams are fulfilled.

I don't think I'm made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

Being an old maid is a little bit like drowning. A really delightful sensation once you give up the struggle.

A meaningful life is filled with contributions.

No hay nada más dañino para un alumno, decía Robert, que un docente resentido, un docente que hace su tarea renegando de ella, creyendo que él está para más, que la vida le tiene reservada grandes tareas y mientras tanto no le queda más remedio que dar clases.

And of course you want the days to add up to something more than you came in and out of the sun and drank the potable water of your developed world--

Conviction, as Michelstaedter wrote, is the present possession of one's own life and one's own person, the ability to live each moment to the full, not goading oneself madly into burning it up fast and using it with a view to an all too imminent future, thus destroying it in the hope that life -- the whole of life -- may pass swiftly.

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. —Steve Jobs

I had thought the destination was what was important, but it turned out it was the journey.

In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just feels longer.

As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it. He

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one