Quotes About Fulfillment

I'll have what she's having.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

You could do anything, anything you want with your life.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

If I was lonely, if I was afraid of being alone, then why abandon myself? Why run to someone else looking to give myself the thing that only I could give? I wanted to escape myself because I felt empty, and the emptiness frightened me. But obviously, I was empty because I was always running out, running away. The only way to fill the emptiness was to remain, to take up residence in myself.

Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently

No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its biological purpose, and no other instinct is so disconnected from its purpose.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

The human physical senses must be emancipated from the sense of possession, and then the humanity of the senses and the human enjoyment of the senses will be achieved for the first time.

I just wanted to do something important.

You could be the first nation to tell your children to ask themselves what work in the world would most become their souls and to prepare to do it.

Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

Anyway, who in their right mind would ever say a person was supposed to be happy? In your life happiness is either cut to your length or isn't.

the quest-romance is the search of the libido or desiring self for a fulfillment that will deliver it from the anxieties of reality.

Vista dall'esterno, la mia esistenza era scheletrica; vista dall'interno ispirava quello che ispirano gli appartamenti il cui unico mobilio è una biblioteca sontuosamente stracolma di libri: l'ammirazione gelosa per chi non si sovraccarica del superfluo e trabocca del necessario

I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.

Ohne die Träume würden wir gewiss früher alt.