Quotes About Fulfillment

Like a dog himself. Why Want Another Universe If This One Has Dogs?

S)he no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfillment as some imaginary perfect daughter or sister or parter or wife or mother or employee or anything other than a human being, orbiting her own purpose, and answerable to herself.

I suppose I want my life to mean something. I want to do something good.

It's hard to predict, isn't it? The things that will make us happy.

Jamás vivirás si te dedicas a buscar el sentido de la vida.

Also, orgasms, I realized, were an incredibly big deal. It seemed orgasms were the central tenet of life here. Maybe this was the only meaning humans had on this planet. Their purpose was simply to pursue the enlightenment of orgasm. A few seconds of relief from the surrounding dark.

Reading is added to that great pile of things—work, love, sexual prowess, the words they didn't say when they really needed to say them—that they are bound to feel a bit dissatisfied about.

If one advances confidently," Thoreau had written in Walden, "in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." He'd also observed that part of this success was the product of being alone. "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Don't spend your life worrying about what you are missing out on. Not to be Buddhist about it- okay, to be a little Buddhist about it- life isn't about being pleased with what you are doing, but about what you are being.

Want,' she told her, in a measured tone, 'is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe there is a life that you really want to live.

live any life we want. Any life. Dream big . . . You can be anything you want to be. Because in one life, you are.

You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being.

Humans were always doing things they didn't like doing. In fact, to my best estimate, at any one time only point three percent of humans were actively doing something they liked doing, and even when they did so, they felt an intense guilt about it and were fervently promising themselves they'd be back doing something horrendously unpleasant very shortly.

Want...is an interesting word. It means lack...if we fill that lack with something else, the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem.

Want, is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem

Querer es una palabra muy curiosa. Querer implica carencia. A veces, si llenamos esa carencia con alguna cosa, el deseo original desaparece por completo. Quizá tu problema no es lo que quieres, sino aquello de lo que careces. Quizá exista una vida que realmente quieras vivir

Trató de imaginarse cómo habría sido aceptarse a sí misma completamente. Todos los errores que habían quedado en su cuerpo. Todos los sueños que no había cumplido y todos los dolores que había sentido. Todos los deseos y anhelos reprimidos

Maybe this was the only meaning humans had on this planet. Their purpose was simply to pursue the enlightenment of orgasm. A few seconds of relief from the surrounding dark.

Olmak istediÄŸim her ÅŸeyi olmam, yaÅŸamak istediÄŸim bütün hayatlar? yaÅŸamam mümkün deÄŸil. Ä°stediÄŸim bütün yetenekleri geliÅŸtirmem mümkün deÄŸil. Ä°stememin nedeni ne peki? Hayat?mda, olas? bütün zihinsel ve fiziksel deneyimlerin her bir rengini, tonunu ve her çeÅŸidini yaÅŸamak istiyorum.

Want,' she told her, in a measured tone, 'is

But since when did taste have anything to do with happiness?

Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same.

can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath

She wanted to have a purpose, something to give her a reason to exist.