Quotes About Fulfillment

Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this was what you wanted.

There is only one journey, she said, that all men make. They go forth from the Mother, and do what men are born to do, till she stretches out her hand, and calls them home.

Yet she [Jane Porter] asks little enough: a quiet life, peace, and if not active happiness, that resignation which after the hot days of youth are over, passes for contentment.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Galway Kinnell recently said in an interview that a young poet has so many choices but an old poet must simply endure his chosen life.

When you fulfill your needs, you generate the energy to meet your child's needs.

How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.

The important and only vital question is, how much greater, finer, am I than I was yesterday? Have I fulfilled my possibilities, made the most of my potentialities. What a marvelous world if all would, could hold this attitude toward life.34

You do best at what you enjoy doing most. It's how you feel about yourself that counts most.

for every man; a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do; which could he but be led or driven to do, he were then doing "like a man," as we phrase it. His success, in such case, were complete, his felicity a maximum. This path, to find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

Considering what short lived, weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure?

And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

When I returned, everything was different. Everything was calm, and I felt very clean. Everything was in order. Everything was as it should be. I had a secret. It was a guilty secret, certainly. But it was MY secret. I had something to hold on to. It was company. It kept me calm. It filled me up and emptied me out.

We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed of this, we turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how to not-need.

perhaps our purpose is, for the time being, to be human, to live on this earth and in this human community, to receive something from it, and to give something back.

The spiritual realm is not the ethereal beyond our lived experience. It is our experience, lived fully and well.

The physical food transubstantiates in our minds into something more ethereal, of human and emotional nurturance, a sense that our hungers are being sated. Even if you are just stuffing handfuls of fries into your mouth on a binge, you still feel that some emptiness, if briefly, is being filled.

We deserve more. Vastly more. Sufficiency, plenty, abundance. Not the denial of body that is no more than a metaphor for our denial of self.

I do urge you to welcome children. Even one child will make a difference in your life that you cannot fathom. I promise you, my girl.