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Quotes About Fulfillment

What made 'em bad was they needed stuff.
~ John Steinbeck
enchilada in one's stomach
~ John Steinbeck
De todos los animales de la creación el hombre es el único que bebe sin tener sed, come sin tener hambre y habla sin tener nada que decir.
~ John Steinbeck
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
~ John Stuart Mill
We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything
~ John Updike
What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.
~ John Updike
Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.
~ John Updike
You are all of twenty and very much feeling your womanhood. The strange thing about womanhood is that it goes on and on--the same daily burden of constant vague expectation and of everything being just slightly disappointing compared with what one knows one has inside oneself waiting to be touched off. It's rather like being a set of pretty little logs that won't quite catch fire, isn't it?
~ John Updike
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~ John Updike
While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him — so much of it, evidently, that he could not keep track of his appointments.
~ John Updike
Nature is the index and context of all health and if we have an appetite it is there to be satisfied, satisfying thereby the cosmic order.
~ John Updike
Soportó la maternidad, el club-jardín y los cócteles. Compartió el café de la mañana con la mujer de la limpieza y el coñac de medianoche con su marido, confundiendo la lujuria de borracho con la reconciliación. El mundo crecía a su alrededor: hijo tras hijo surgieron de entre sus piernas [...] Ella alimentaba al mundo pero no era alimentada por él
~ John Updike
Not until midlife did she truly believe that she had a right to exist, that the forces of nature had created her not as an afterthought and companion - a bent rib, as the infamous Malleus Maleficarum had it - but as the mainstay of the continuing Creation, as the daughter of a daughter and a woman whose daughters in turn would bear daughters.
~ John Updike
A fulfilling relationship requires that the two partners be more concerned about giving than about receiving.
~ Unknown
Research has found that satisfying relationships are characterized by a simple formula: two people mutually meeting each other's needs.
~ Unknown
I'm so lucky to be having a happy childhood as an adult.
~ John Waters
There was to be no further talk of damning her eyes or of her interfering with his riding his own line. He was only too anxious to pilot her again if she would allow it. She for her part had no doubt that there at last she had found, at least so far as crossing a country went, the man she was looking for.
~ Unknown
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
~ John Wooden
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
~ John Wooden
Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.
~ John Wooden
Make each day your masterpiece.
~ John Wooden
Make each day a masterpiece.
~ John Wooden
Joy makes the longest journey too short.
~ John Wooden
So often we fail to acknowledge what we have because we're so concerned about what we want.
~ John Wooden