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Quotes About Fulfillment

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
~ C. S. Lewis
Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone anything is ridiculous, if it's important to you.
~ Frederick Lenz
It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.
~ Erich Fromm
If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
~ Walter Map
I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
~ Anne Frank
We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.
~ Harold S. Kushner
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
~ Joseph Campbell
You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.
~ Charles Ferguson
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
~ James Caan
I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.
~ Mason Cooley
The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.
~ Bob Newhart
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
~ Edward Young
This is not the position in life that I had hoped to fill. I want to be an obstetrician. Who quarrels with an obstetrician? Even the obstetrician who delivered Bugsy Siegel goes to bed at night with a clear conscience.
~ Philip Roth
Hard to determine from the way she tackled her tasks whether it was she who was serving necessity or necessity that was serving her.
~ Philip Roth
A única obsessão que todos querem: 'amor'. As pessoas pensam que ao se apaixonar, elas se tornam inteiras? A união platônica de almas? Eu penso o contrário. Eu acho que você é inteiro antes de começar. E o amor quebra você. Você está inteiro, e então está quebrado.
~ Philip Roth
A única obsessão que todos querem: 'amor'. As pessoas pensam que ao se apaixonar, elas se tornam inteiras? A união platônica de almas? Eu penso o contrário. Eu acho que você é inteiro antes de começar. E o amor quebra você. Você está inteiro, e então está quebrado.
~ Philip Roth
I curled myself around these dreams and I began to be happy.
~ Philip Roth
the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
~ Philip Yancey
Prayer is an expression of who we are…. We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
~ Philip Yancey
The West too may find that prosperity and self-indulgence are not sufficient to satisfy human needs.
~ Philip Yancey
Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.
~ Philip Yancey
Happiness recedes from those who pursue her." Happiness will come upon me unexpectedly as a by-product, a surprising bonus for something I have invested myself in. And, most likely, that investment will include pain. It is hard to imagine pleasure without it.
~ Philip Yancey