Quotes About Fulfillment

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left of him when he's done his work? What's any artist but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around.

What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from his work? What do they expect? What is there left of him when he's done his work? What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give...If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

G?sesc c? numa' a?a po?i tr?i pe lume, f?când mereu câte ceva, de vrei s? nu-nnebune?ti or s? nu scobori mai jos decât câinele ultimului om.

Labour to get Christ, and through him hopes of heaven, and thou takest the right road to content; thou

In Bible-story journeys, ain't no journey hopeless. Everybody finds what they suppose to find.

I cannot estimate how much this pleases me. I feel I have succeeded to the idleness of God.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

It should seem as if there were a few green sunny spots in the desert of life, to which we are always hastening forward: we eye them wistfully in the distance, and care not what perils or suffering we endure, so that we arrive at them at last.

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.