Quotes About Fulfillment

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be but I'm not happy when I try to fake it.

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. I liked it enormously.

trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.

the good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

There's something nihilistic about not having children

Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart.

Real poverty is about doing what you have to do as opposed to what you want.

Incredibly, the self-starved never appear capable of taking any pleasure in the very vessel for which they've sacrificed.

It wasn't that eating was so great--it wasn't--but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything that was decidedly less than okay.

I wondered if that wasn't the answer to the mystery, countrywide. It wasn't that eating was so great-it wasn't-but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything else that was decidedly less than okay.

I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so-- what's next?

She had some appreciation for folks with a greed for sensation. Who were determined to "squeeze the orange" and press fresh experience from every day. But that way lay burnout. There were only so many experiences, really- a depressing discovery in itself., and surely you were better off trying to replicate the pleasing ones as often as possible.

as self-satisfaction, and their contentment came across as exclusionary.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

Life can be swamped by sex very easily if sex is not normally satisfied.

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.

There is nothing more nerve-wracking than being inches from a lifelong goal.

Women are not a problem...they are an answer