Quotes About Fulfillment

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. —LILY TOMLIN

Many people's tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60."

The work done, she lowered him back into place with what, in his final thought, seemed great gentleness. And then he was done.

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.

I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.

Being happy, it seems to me, requires wanting what you have, whereas being unhappy requires wanting something different.

But excitement, I reckon, is overrated.

loves it, in fact, as much as anything she has ever done. After the brain deadening years of child-rearing, she feels like she is waking up, feels as if her mind is stirring after a long sleep, spluttering and juddering into motion. She enjoys the hours spent in the red light of the darkroom too, thrills (more than she

Happiness is a relative concept.

It is pointless to be any less than all you can be.

It is pointless to be any less than all you can be. - Sabine Strohem

Now that you're there and have been all along, I feel whole again. - Griffin Moss

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Wanting everything is the thing that eventually tears you apart.

My true intent is all for your delight.

Non c'è confine tra quel che siamo e quel che dovremmo essere. Siamo solo quel che possiamo essere.

There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work. There are those who stop so they can work. Working is the why of work.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something.

these were people who'd gotten what they wanted, only to find out that it was the last thing on earth they actually needed (adulation, creative lift-off) to maintain their own mental equilibrium. This meant something.

The end of the Animals tour marked another low point. David now says that this was one period when he really felt that it might be all up for Pink Floyd. His view is that we had achieved, and sustained, the success we had originally wanted as a band, and accordingly were finding it difficult to see what more we could do.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.