Quotes About Fulfillment

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all lifes duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

Here is a perfect poem; to awaken a longing, to nourish it, to develop it, to increase it, to stimulate it – and to gratify it.

Ba?kalar?n?n mutlulu?u, art?k mutlu olamayacaklar?n sevinci olur.

Well, it is this: that pleasure is an accident in a Christian's life; it is not the aim of it; and this we learn too late.

Their well-prepared passion had finally reached maturity through that which tends to deaden passions: gratification.

What is life, my dear fellow, if you let a woman be the whole of it? A boat you can't command,

I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Everyone had another sort of life up their sleeve that might have made them happy.

We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

We were so happy.

I'm sure it's innate, it's just biology, for a man to want a woman who can give him children.

Maybe it wasn't that hard to be happy.

She knew one tiny grandchild was all it would take to stop the silence roaring, to make her days splutter back to life again, but you could not ask your children for grandchildren.

when you're starved of something you should receive in abundance, you never quite trust it.

She'd paid full price, but life was a competition and she knew non-working wives of wealthy men loved to talk about how they'd saved by bargain-shopping for designer clothes. It was their contribution to the household finances.

Her life has so much joy. That was an actual verifiable fact.

Ah, yes, money. They say it doesn't buy happiness, but I don't know about that.

maybe wishes do come true because this is family, this is what she never had, never knew, never dreamed, this is a moment so perfect and funny and this is her life now, just a string of perfect, funny moments one after the other, like a string of beads that will go on forever.

Every time she managed to get him to eat something healthy she found herself deeply satisfied, her mouth virtually chewing along with his, as if some innate, biological need was being met.