Quotes About Fulfillment

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.

The tragedy is to die without knowing who you were, to keep the act going till the end.

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.

Happy we were the, for we had a good house, and good food and good work.

Oh there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

Happy we were then, for we had a good house, and good food, and good work.

quality of life isn't measured only by what we gain, but also by what we trade for it.

Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they'd been fulfilled. I saw that what transpires in the mind is just as real as any flesh and blood occurrence. What had only been imagination in life, now became tangible, each fantasy a full reality. I lived them all—while, at the same time, standing to the side, a witness to their, often, intimate squalor. A witness cursed with total objectivity.

And to kill one's self is to violate the law because it deprives that self of working out the needs of its life.

She doesn't have to even give me supper. Im not hungry anyway. Im full. (Dress of White Silk)

Now they need only learn what life wants from humans.

reporter once asked Rockefeller how much is enough. His answer: Just a little bit more. And that's all we want: to eat and sleep, to stay dry and be loved, and acquire just a little bit more.

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

She runs the entire meal down the garbage disposal and goes hungry, a hunger more wonderful than any meal.

We're shaped to think the things we want will make us happy. But shaped to take only the briefest thrill in getting. Wanting is what having wants to recover.

In the dark, she asks, What are you thinking? He's thinking that his life has reached its zenith, this very day. That he has lived to see everything he wants. Lived to see himself happy.

What do I do now, for the next forty years? What work can't the efficiency of unified mankind chop into pure fertilizer?

the sadness of completion.

it. There is great, joyous, and essential work to do. But first a person needs to graduate from endless self-love.

What decided him (almost invariably) was a college project in which he had occasion to do some independent research—to find out things for himself. Once he discovered the pleasures of this kind of work, he never turned back. He is completely satisfied with his chosen vocation. . . . He works hard and devotedly in his laboratory, often seven days a week.

Silliman had struck oil—oil suitable for lighting.

Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.