Quotes About Fulfillment

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves

How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells—some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim—when all they really needed was to be satisfied with what they already had? Sometimes what they had was better than what they thought they wanted.

I think that man was half-right. He is better off out of the game - but the game may not be better off without him. A man should not exist for himself alone. Life made an investment in him, and that investment was not paid off.

It is not how long one lives, but how well one lives that is important.

Absolutely nobody in the entire United States of America has even a modicum of interest in who I am, but I'm determined to change that. Because if I can pull it off here, then I can kiss goodbye to tedious speeches, crappy TV jobs and all the other nonsense I have to do back in England to pay the bills.

Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

the most important thing is not life, but the good life.

From all these, then, they will be finally free, and they will live a happier life than that men count most happy, the life of victors at Olympia.

I will proceed by asking a question: Would you not say that a horse has some end? I should. And the end or use of a horse or of anything would be that which could not be accomplished, or not so well accomplished, by any other thing? I do not understand, he said. Let me explain: Can you see, except with the eye? Certainly not. Or hear, except with the ear? No. These then may be truly said to be the ends of these organs? They may.

For instance, I remember someone asking Sophocles, the poet, whether he was still capable of enjoying a woman. 'Don't talk in that way,' he answered; 'I am only too glad to be free of all that; it is like escaping from bondage to a raging madman.

Some people are born to get married, have children and live happily ever after, and others to became philosophers.

La amistad del amante no brota del buen sentido, sino como las ganas de comer, del ansia de saciarse.

mira si no es más bien necesario que el que desea le falte la cosa que desea, o bien que no la desee si no le falta.

IF A MAN NEGLECTS EDUCATION, HE WALKS LAME TO THE END OF HIS LIFE

E quem não se considera incompleto e insuficiente, não deseja aquilo cuja falta não pode notar

What being is there that does not desire happiness? Well then, since all of us desire happiness, how can we be happy? – that is the next question.

Women do not like to forgo the 'luxuries of life' and 'conspicuous consumption

Of old the saying, "Nothing too much," appeared to be, and really was, well said. For he whose happiness rests with himself, if possible, wholly, and if not, as far as is possible,—who is not hanging in suspense on other men, or changing with the vicissitude of their fortune,—has his life ordered for the best.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with 4 arms, 4 legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius