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Quotes About Fulfillment

You only live once—but if you work it right, once is enough. —JOE E. LEWIS
~ Mae West
Tu vivi solo una volta, ma se lo fai bene, una volta è abbastanza.
~ Mae West
Sólo vives una vez, pero si vives bien una vez es suficiente.
~ Mae West
Trying your best and feeling good about yourself is more important than winning prizes.
~ Unknown
And so I recognized that my sojourn into open-heart territory was ultimately an open heart journey in another sense, a spiritual journey of awakening—to the reality that I am here in this life with a purpose, and have been from the day I was born.
~ Unknown
The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy.
~ Maggie Nelson
To devote yourself to someone else's pussy can be a means of devoting yourself to your own.
~ Maggie Nelson
And if 'saturation' means that one simply could not absorb or contain one single drop more, why does 'saturation' not bring with it a connotation of satisfaction, either in concept, or in experience?
~ Maggie Nelson
Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.
~ Maggie Nelson
What if where I am is what I need?
~ Maggie Nelson
So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself.
~ Maggie Nelson
During our first forays out as a couple, I blushed a lot, felt dizzy with my luck, unable to contain the nearly exploding fact that I've so obviously gotten everything I'd ever wanted, everything there was to get. Handsome, brilliant, quick-witted, articulate, forceful, you. We spent hours and hours on the red couch, giggling, The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.
~ Maggie Nelson
What if where I am is what I need?' Before you, I had always thought of this mantra as a means of making peace with a bummer or even a catastrophic situation. I never imagined it might apply to joy, too
~ Maggie Nelson
What if where I am is what I need? Before you, I had always thought of this mantra as a means of making peace with a bummer or even catastrophic situation. I never imagined it might apply to joy, too.
~ Maggie Nelson
Its happiness has been of a more palpable and undeniable and unmitigated quality than any I've ever known. For it isn't just moments of happiness, which is all I thought we got. It's a happiness that spreads.
~ Maggie Nelson
In any fairy-tale, getting what you wish for comes at a cost. There is always a codicil, an addendum to the granting of a wish. There is always a price to pay.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
At the bottom of the steps, she turns to Iris, her face full of confusion. 'They said it would be there. They promised they would put it in there for me.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
What she has always dreaded is here. It has come.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
learning something new, challenging oneself, setting goals and achieving them should be something natural in human life, for it is only through continuous growing that progress happens. Doing the contrary is equal to getting lost. If you stop dreaming, you stop living.
~ Unknown
They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
~ Mahalia Jackson
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Expansion of happiness is the purpose of creation.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We're creating little hedonists,' Frank used to say. 'Nothing will be as pleasurable as this for the rest of their lives. They'll search everywhere for something that can measure up, and nothing will.
~ Maile Meloy