Quotes About Fulfillment

Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

Some people are lucky. They become who they are supposed to be. This did not happen to me until I met (your mother). One day we started to talk and it never stopped, this conversation.

Maybe he didn't want that life after all, starting over broke, hailing a cab in a busy intersection filled with jockeying junior executives, arms aloft, bodies smartly spinning to cover every compass point. What did he want that was not posthumous? He stared into space. He understood what was missing, the predatory impulse, the sense of large excitation that drove him through his days, the sheer and reeling need to be.

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

He told me that I hadn't done anything yet. Hadn't lived yet. All you do is pass the time, he said.

This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished

What's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

It is time to "perform," he thought. She would have to be "satisfied." He would have to "service" her. They would make efforts to "interact.

What well being in a barefoot piss after a strenuous and proper screw.

The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.

Kona?no, ako ste svjesni toga da vas nitko drugi ne može usre?iti i da je sre?a posljedica ljubavi koja izvire iz vas, to je najuzvišenije majstorstvo Tolteka,majstorstvo u ljubavi.

Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.

the first edition of this book, then called POET, The Psychology of Everyday Things, I started with these lines: "This is the book I always wanted to write, except I didn't know it." Today I do know it, so I simply say, "This is the book I always wanted to write.

It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm.

Anyone ambitious, who lives to be old or even old , endures the inevitable loss of ambition's fulfillment.

The most important thing in life is to love what you're doing, because that's the only way you'll ever be really good at it.

Make every day extraordinary no matter what your job is.

Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be.

The first task in building a compelling story world is to create hope.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

I don't know if there's a healthier way for two people to stay in love than to stop using each other to resolve their unfulfilled longings and, instead, start holding each other closely as they experience them.

It's a beautiful moment when somebody wakes up to this reality, when they realize God created them so other people could enjoy them, not just endure them.

The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.

Remarkably, the most common regret of the dying was this: they wish they'd had the courage to live a life true to themselves and not the life others expected of them.