Quotes About Fulfillment

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

It was very modern and deeply western to listen to music that no one else could hear. Private music led to private thoughts. Private thoughts led to private desires, to private fulfillments or private hungers, to a whole private universe away from parents, family and society.

I hope you found pleasure in it at least. I have always thought impulsive pleasure was the best kind.

In the real world, success has all kinds of different faces in all kinds of different fields of endeavor. It would be nice if we could acknowledge as much to our kids.

Money buys many things, but typically not a sense of either authenticity or meaning.

All my life I have been moving forward, and now I am here. I have a mortal's voice, let me have the rest. I lift the brimming bowl to my lips and drink.

Name one hero who was happy. You can't.

Imagine such a happiness. Like drinking wine your whole life, instead of water. Like having Achilles to run your errands.

No wonder I have been so slow, I thought. All this while, I have been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail.

Are you frightened?" I asked. The first call of a nightingale in the trees at our backs. "No," he answered. "This is what I was born for.

He had never been hungry for glory, only for life.

He talked so often of longing for us and home. But it was lies. When he was back on Ithaca he was never content, always looking to the horizon. Once we were his again, he wanted something else.

No wonder I had been so slow, I thought. All this while I had been a weaver without wool, a ship without sea. Yet look where I sail.

Name one hero who was happy - You can't." "I can't." "I know. They never let you become famous and happy - I'll tell you a secret." "Tell me." "I'm going to be the first.

The things that make us happy make us wise.

Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor.

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

The challenge to Jacob-Israel is to turn to Yahweh and be willing to submit to his intention regarding the fulfillment of his purpose, rather than continuing to insist on working with its own ideas about how that should work out (Is 55:6-13).

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, life to the limit.

A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

Most men think they are simply here on earth to kill time—and it's killing them.

Our lives are not a random series of events; they tell a Story that has meaning.