Quotes About Fulfillment

In joy, our choices may appear to be few, but one's responses are anything but confined, they're inspired, expanded.

Much of the terror of death is terror of dying without having given. Without even finding what one has to give.

Real joy comes when we get the right desire met - the desire for God himself, for a life led by the Spirit, fulfilling not our material desires but our deepest need, which is to be in a close relationship with our Creator. That is the source of true blessing. The only source.

Powerful Leaders intentionally pursue their vocation of who they are not a career of what they do; what's calling you?

Sports don't define us it is not what we live for.

A happy wife is a happy life," he said, echoing a popular rich-man truism.

I would never have to work again. I could travel where I wanted, work if and when I wanted, and be completely free. If I survived.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

Do what you love and the business will follow.

The triumph of vegetation is total.

You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model aeroplanes.

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best.

No one in the West will ever be happy again, she also thought, never again; happiness today is nothing but an old dream, the past conditions for its existence are simply no longer being fulfilled.

Men in general don't know how to live: they have no true familiarity with life, and never feel entirely at ease in it, so they pursue different projects, more or less ambitious and more or less grandiose – generally speaking, of course, they fail and reach the conclusion that they would have been better off just living, but as a rule by that point it's too late.

When men have no vices, she thought, it's very difficult to guess what might make them happy.

La alegría es una emoción intensa y profunda, un sentimiento exaltante de plenitud experimentado por la conciencia; se puede comparar con la embriaguez, con el arrebato, con el éxtasis.

A life lived in pursuit of a goal leaves little time for reminiscence.

Nefericirea noastr? nu atinge apogeul decât atunci când am întrez?rit, îndeajuns de aproape, posibilitatea practic? a fericirii.