Quotes About Fulfillment

Money isn't enough. Happiness takes more than a padded bank account.

The roads to true love is rocky But worth the climb -The Coltrains-

Polly finished her huge narrative during the summer term. The day after she had finished it, she went round with the oddest mixture of feelings, pride at having got it done, sick of the sight of it and glad it was over, and completely lost without it.

Howl said, "I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more eventful than any story made it sound, though she was determined to try.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the lenght of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.

Done, he said, and laughed.

I read old novels. The reason is simple: I prefer proper endings. Marriages and deaths, noble sacrifices and miraculous restorations, tragic separations and unhoped-for reunions, great falls and dreams fulfilled; these, in my view, constitute an ending worth the wait. They should come after adventures, perils, dangers and dilemmas, and wind everything up nice and neatly. Endings like this are to be found more commonly in old novels than new ones, so I read old novels.

L'appetit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes by eating. Your appetite will come back, but it must be met halfway. You must want it to come.

what is money for, if not to get what you want?

I do a job which I ought to find satisfying, and it leaves me bored and empty. A diet of milk and honey, when you have teeth, he observed.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.1 —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

But if we don't prefer things, then we increase our chances to be content.

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.

The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

But the happiness you hoped to win for me will never be mine.

Oh my dear, dear Stephen, how can I ever repay you for such unselfishness? But the happiness you hoped to win for me will never be mine.

What I'd really hate would be the settled feeling, with nothing but happiness to look forward to.

perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know any thing but happiness.

It is time to awaken!" "You have a mission! It is time to begin!" "Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!

You are worthy of loving yourself. You've done great things in the past. You'll do great things in the future. You're doing a great thing now. All will be revealed to you. You are Divine. Rejoice!