Quotes About Fulfillment

But even in extreme old age, especially in old age, one shouldn't forget one's dick.

I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.

During many ages, the prediction, as it is usual, contributed to its own accomplishment. 

years, according to my wish, of health, of leisure

Why do I always have to want more?" he asked the river. And receiving no reply, he shook his head.

most people found it hard to know what to do other than eat and drink around the clock in a conscientious drive to fill as many recycling bags as possible.

I like heroin, cocaine, nice houses. good furniture, and pretty girls,' said Alexander, 'and I've had all of them in large quantities. 'But you know, they never made me happy.' 'My word, you're hard to please, aren't you?

the two men left the building with a sense of achievement, counterbalanced by desire.

But the point is that we live in a culture that idolizes happiness, and if we idolize happiness, it will always elude us.

What does your worship look like? Anxiety, despair, shopping, primping, acting like someone you aren't, acting stupid when you are smart, or acting like you don't care when you do? Why do you do it? You are hoping that, if you worship it correctly, the idol will give you what you want. But idols are notoriously slow in responding.

Sin is not rational. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't look into the future. It doesn't consider consequences, especially if they are not immediate. All it knows is "I WANT—I WANT MORE.

Then what do you want with me?'... 'The pursuit of happiness.

Kings and subjects, rich and poor, reciprocally depend upon each other; and it is the command of God that every one perform well the part which is assigned him.

There is no preparation for a good death but a good life.

While we seek to fill up life in a way that will best secure the ends of our existence here, our whole plan and course of action should be such as will not hinder but serve our preparation for a future world.

When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Saviour; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us.

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

An achievement is bondage.It obliges one to a higher achievement.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.