Quotes About Fulfillment

True satisfaction is only for what has its plentitude in its own being; where craving is due to an inborn deficiency, there may be satisfaction at some given moment but it does not last.

We are all writing the story of our life. We want to know what it's "about," what are its themes and which theme is on the rise. We demand of it something deeper, or richer, or more substantive. We want to know where we're headed __not to spoil our own ending by ruining the surprise, but we want to ensure that when the ending comes, it won't be shallow. We will not have done something. We will not have squandered our time here.

Ask... seek... knock... and the dream shall be yours.

Tutti scoprono, più o meno presto nella loro vita, che la felicità non è realizzabile, ma pochi si soffermano invece sulla considerazione opposta: che tale è anche una infelicità perfetta.

Se si escludono istanti prodigiosi e singoli che il destino ci può donare, l'amare il proprio lavoro (che purtroppo è privilegio di pochi) costituisce la miglior approssimazione concreta alla felicità sulla terra: ma questa è una verità che non molti conoscono.

Felice l'uomo che ha raggiunto il porto, Che lascia dietro di sé mari e tempeste, I cui sogni sono morti o mai nati. Che ha deposto il carico e si è tersa la fronte, E riposa al margine del cammino. Non teme né spera né aspetta, Ma guarda fisso il sole che tramonta.

The word of the Lord is designed to reshape your purposes, putting you in a position for Him to do through you what you cannot do on your own.

Because in running toward what I thought was better, safer, more pleasurable, more fulfilling, less painful, less complicated, or less confining, I've actually been running from God, from His will, and from His blessing. And I'm tired of running. Aren't you?

What you are, comes to you.

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other: and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterward in the hope of being in Paradise again.

Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they'd need to destroy something that precious to feel full.

That, Claire thought, was a pretty good definition of love: needing someone even after you got what you thought you wanted.

A dream deferred is a dream denied.

I walked inside Macy's and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.

People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But that doesn't mean we should stop trying. Even

People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But that doesn't mean we should stop trying. Even if their expectations aren't correct, their instincts

People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But

God has planted in us endless hungers. Yet we master them in order to live.

Do it, Ester. If you must, then deceive your husband just as you deceived me—but you'll do it with a full belly and a house with children. I wish

What was there to stop him from choosing some completely different life, after all? Nothing but the fact that he'd never wanted a different life.

For the greatest happiness of women is to be right one day, one hour, one second after being wrong all their lives...apparently.

The sole purpose of existence is to open oneself to sensation and to satisfy all appetites as they arise.

Self discipline and respect come naturally when you truly believe that your life has a spiritual dimension and that you are carefully designed to fulfill a destiny. Never leave a friend behind....they are all we have to get us through this life....and are the only thing we hope to see in the next...

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