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Quotes About Fulfillment

I mean most women just want to be good at something, they've got good-at minds, and they mean deftness and a flair and good taste and what-not. They can't ever understand that if your desire is to go to the furthest limits of yourself then the actual form your art takes doesn't seem important to you. Whether you use words or paint or sounds.
~ John Fowles
All would be well when she was truly his; in his bed and in his bank ... and of course in his heart, too.
~ John Fowles
You use your life.
~ John Fowles
Man is a highly acquisitive creature, brainwashed by most modern societies into believing that the act of acquisition is more enjoyable than the fact of having acquired, that getting beats having got.
~ John Fowles
I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing, I love being to the full
~ John Fowles
We could not expect him to see what we are only just beginning--and with so much more knowledge and the lessons of existentialist philosophy at our disposal--to realise ourselves: that the desire to hold and the desire to enjoy are mutually destructive. His statement to himself should have been, I possess this now, therefore I am happy, instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this forever, and therefore am sad.
~ John Fowles
In a happy world, there would be no art. I retreat too often into my imagination. In a happy world, the experience of reality would be enough.
~ John Fowles
He won't be happy till he gets it, said Michael, at last: The only thing is, you see, he doesn't know what IT is.
~ John Galsworthy
Ljubav kao njezina — strastvena, koja obožava, koja štiti, koja ?ezne za potpunim podavanjem i žrtvovanjem same sebe, ali koja potajno traži i punu njegovu ljubav — jer kako bi bez toga mogla ljubiti ponosna žena? — takva ljubav ?ezne uvijek za potpunijim sjedinjenjem, nego što je mogu?e u ovom svijetu, gdje se sve mijenja i pokre?e.
~ John Galsworthy
If there's one thing I've learned in my years on this planet, it's that the happiest and most fulfilled people are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self-interest.
~ John Glenn
Venusians have different values. They value love, communication, beauty, and relationships. They spend a lot of time supporting, helping, and nurturing one another. Their sense of self is defined through their feelings and the quality of their relationships. They experience fulfillment through sharing and relating.
~ John Gray
Their (men) sense of self is defined through their ability to achieve results. They experience fulfillment primarily through success and accomplishment.
~ John Gray
Most men are not only hungry to give love but are starving for it. Their biggest problem is that they do not know what they are missing.
~ John Gray
Martians value power, competency, efficiency, and achievement. They are always doing things to prove themselves and develop their power and skills. Their sense of self is defined through their ability to achieve results. They experience fulfillment primarily through success and accomplishment.
~ John Gray
A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.
~ John Gray
Women are happy when they believe their needs will be met. When a woman is upset, overwhelmed, confused, exhausted, or hopeless what she needs most is simple companionship. She needs to feel she is not alone. She needs to feel loved and cherished.
~ John Gray
Practise doing things for yourself and not depending on him to make you happy.
~ John Gray
Quando non è soddisfatta di se stessa, è anche incapace di mostrare accettazione e apprezzamento nei confronti del partner. Nei
~ John Gray
If women become too much like men, men lose purpose, meaning, and inspiration in life.
~ John Gray
I learned it is not enough just to be happy with what we have; we must honor our material desires as well.
~ John Gray
Similarly, when a man is in love he is motivated to be the best he can be in order to serve others. When his heart is open, he feels so confident in himself that he is capable of making major changes. Given the opportunity to prove his potential, he expresses his best self.
~ John Gray
Through sharing her feelings she begins to remember that she is worthy of love and that her needs will be fulfilled. Doubt and mistrust melt away. Her tendency to be compulsive relaxes as she remembers that she is worthy of love—she doesn't have to earn it;
~ John Gray
The more a woman's need to be heard and understood is fulfilled, the easier it is for her to give her man the acceptance he needs.
~ John Gray
When people say their goal in life is to be happy they are telling you they are miserable. Thinking of happiness as a project, they look for fulfillment at some future time. The present slips by, and anxiety creeps in. (…) so they turn to philosophy, and nowadays therapy, which offer relief from their unease.
~ John Gray