Quotes About Fulfillment

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

Real happiness lies within you.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.