Quotes About Fulfillment

O thrice and four times blessed!

This last labor grant me, O Arethusa.

I want to be the one to say: "This is what I'll do, this is how I'll do it, and now see? I've done it.

Everyone now knows that marriage is not the only route to fulfillment, but the media and the internet tell of more lonely hearts and solitary singles than ever before.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

Without children, you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible: It is essential that women feel like failures--that they be made to feel as if they've mad the wrong choice. We are held responsible for failures that are collective and cross-gender. The weapons used against our gender are specific, but the method can be applied to men too. A good consumer is an insecure consumer.

The particularity of the cross] fragments our attempt to hold it as an integral whole, administer and control it at our whim. This is what scandal means; it disrupts an expected fulfillment and enclosure of meaning.

To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:

I nearly weep. All I had ever wanted was that my mother be glad to be alive in my presence. I am still certain that if she had been, I'd have grown up whole inside. "Imagine," I say to Leonard. "She's so old and she can still do this to me." "It's not how old she is that's remarkable," he says. "It's how old you are.

Life is too short to work so hard.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

There is no happiness in life, there is only a mirage on the horizon, so cherish that.

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.