Quotes About Fulfillment

Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.

The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

But I think we often settle for sex when we want love. And we often want love when we need something else, like a good job or a chance to go back to school.

He will make any woman happy a little while and then unhappy a long while.

The need exists. I serve the need. After me the need will exist and the need will be served. Let me do well what has and will be done as well by others. Let me take on the role and then let it go.

I said, I like my life. If I have to give it back, if they take it from me, let me not feel I wasted any, let me not feel I forgot to love anyone I meant to love, that I forgot to give what I held in my hands, that I forgot to do some little piece of the work that wanted to come through.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

My darling, why didn't you say so before? You know, I sometimes wonder," she added, turning to Ann, "what it would be like to have no children." "Jolly dull, " said John. "you'd be bored stiff. What would you do all day?" "Well I could read a little," said Mrs Gayford, rather vaguely, "really good books, you know, and the Times Literary Supplement. I used to be very fond of it.

You may never be entirely happy; few people are. You may never achieve your heart's desire in this world, for people seldom do. Sit be enough deathbeds, Branza, and you will hear your fill of stories of missed chances, and wrong turnings, and spurned opportunities for love.

A heart may desire a thing powerfully indeed, but that heart's desire might be what a person least needs, for her health, for her continuing happiness.

Life is only lived full-time by women with children.

I can't go on saving the world if it means neglecting my duties as a cheerleader.

If I'm going to spend a lifetime writing my story, I want it to mean something.

My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.

In her confusion she tried to look scornful when Flutter Mildweather said, "One almost always gets what one wishes—one just doesn't know when or how—and that's what makes wishing so frightening. One must wish for what one is able to accept, somehow or other. That's very important to bear in mind. . . .

Svolazza Beltempo : – Quasi sempre ciò che si desidera si avvera, solo che non si sa come né quando, ed è questo che rende i desideri così ingannevoli. Bisognerebbe desiderare solo ciò che si è pronti ad affrontare in qualsiasi momento: è importante rifletterci sopra.

The truest measure of life is not in its length but the fullness in which it is lived.

The child's is a type of life in which work, the fulfilment of one's task, brings joy and happiness, whereas in the field of adult, work is something which is usually a rather painful process.

Once a direction is given to them, the child's movements are made towards a definite end, so that he himself grows quiet and contented, and becomes an active worker, a being calm and full of joy.

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

Happiness is sometimes an illusion. Real happiness lasts more than a moment...