Quotes About Fulfillment

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

A writer is someone who writes every day and is unhappy if he doesn't.

Porn is like sex without orgasm, compulsive without being satisfying.

100% is the perfect score for everything. If you make or go beyond perfection, it is something else.

The purpose of living is not to live in misery or hatred. Solitude cannot fill anybody's emptiness if the object of living is not known.

The needs of the people may be limited because of wants. To need more is to want less. But to want more is to need more.

You deserve to be happy.

Imagine being given a life and not understanding until its ugly end that the point was to live it.

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

There is only one inborn error: and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. Arthur Schopenhauer

One parent is enough to spoil you but discipline takes two. I got too much of what I wanted and not enough of what I needed.

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.

We only do well the things we like doing.

Philippe did not know how to express such a thought as: 'All too few are the occasions in life when, with mind content, eyes surfeited with beauty, heart light, retentive, and almost empty, there comes a moment for the senses to be filled to overflowing: I shall remember this as just such a moment.

Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience?

One thing is sure. Entertainment is important. Without it, the entire human race would go mad within a matter of hours.

All the great sages of history have made the same mistake. They think people want work, tasks, direction. What people really want is entertainment

It is the belief in duty that captures her spirit best. Yet it is not duty in an arid or formal sense; she enjoyed life, lived it and loved it to the full. 'She loved her country and in turn it loved her.' The

The human experience is meant to be an emotional one, so the extent to which we deny our feelings is the extent to which we deny our purpose for being here.

At our age," she said, "you go for the small things and you do them as well as you can.