Quotes About Fulfillment

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Ik heb niets meer te vragen aan de goden, mijn wensen zijn vervuld, het is goed. Meer dan goed. Het is genoeg.

When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...

The soul is never wholly assembled, except in delight.

Um homem que morre aos trinta e cinco anos é em cada momento da sua vida um homem que morrerá aos trinta e cinco anos. A isso Goethe chamava 'enteléquia

Your Treasure House is in yourself, it contains all you need

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

You can never get enough of what you don't really want.

To try to extinguish the drive for riches with money is like trying to quench a fire by pouring butter over it.

Gaps in our lives drain the power needed to make a positive difference in the world.

When the results of your behavior meet your needs over time, you experience inner peace.

The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things.

came upon me so gradually, so very pleasantly, that I considered myself especially blessed. You see, I was put in charge of brewing

Why didn't I become an architect? Answer: Because I thought the sheets of paper on which I was to pour my dreams were blank. But after twenty-five years of writing, I have come to understand that those pages are never blank. (Orhan Pamuk)

Why didn't I become an architect? Answer: Because I thought the sheets of paper on which I was to pour my dreams were blank. But after twenty-five years of writing, I have come to understand that those pages are never blank.

A life void-of-purpose is no life at all

To put it in the contemporary vernacular, Baal and Asherah were in effect the patron saints of sex and guns and rock 'n' roll, promising to deliver a potent mixture of satisfaction to the desires for power, success, and pleasure. This

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

Because every desire has its proper object...people spend their lives wanting things the shouldn't. The world confuses them into taking heir love and aiming it where it doesn't belong...All it takes to be happy is to love the right things, in the right amounts. Not money. Not books. People. Adults who don't understand that never feel fulfilled...

Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

Imagine going through years of your life with the gut feeling that none of it really matters yet, that it will start at some point in the future, and that the present doesn't really count. Does this feeling seem familiar? Have you ever told yourself that everything will ultimately fall into place once you [fill in the blank]? Who wouldn't wind up numbed to real hope and possibility after exerting so much energy for stuff that really doesn't matter?

As long as you're living in the meantime, you'll never really know what you're missing. And by doing so, your life is just a rehearsal for a performance that never comes.