Quotes About Fulfillment

Abstinence sows sand all overThe ruddy limbs and flaming hair,But Desire gratifiedPlants fruits of life and beauty there.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.

Restated constructively, the end of the adventure already drags the course of the man; he (Cagliostro) is in love with satiety. But she (Seraphina) is in love with adventure. Her pitch is higher.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

The euphoria of quitting a bad job was rivaled only by good sex.

provides a powerful way to awaken to your life's purpose,

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

In dreams begin responsibility.

No man has ever lived that had enoughOf children's gratitude or woman's love.

In dreams begins responsibility.

Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Most people', I say 'couldn't tell you if they're happy. They're simply baffled by the question. They might, if pressed, describe happiness as the absence of pain or any particular anxiety. They might cite small moments of exhilaration...but they'd admit that even these moments are shadowed by a cloud of apprehension'.

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

be suspicious of any [theological] position that fulfills all our heart's desires.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

To live one's myth is to think in its terms. To fulfill one's myth is to suffer through its source.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Industry is the enemy of melancholy

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not competed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it and it works."