Quotes About Fulfillment

The end is already planted in us at the beginning, and it gnaws away at us until we get there freely and consciously.

God will always give you exactly what you truly want and desire. Desire deeply, desire yourself, desire God, desire everything good, true and beautiful.

If you don't walk into the seond half of your own life, it is you who does not want it.

There is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks to human life. The first task is to build a strong "container" or identity; the second is to find the contents that the container was meant to hold. The first task we take for granted as the very purpose of life, which does not mean we do it well. The second task, I am told, is more encountered than sought; few arrive at it with much preplanning, purpose, or passion.

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you? Sully: Not often. Now and then.

La forma más rápida de engendrar un nuevo deseo es satisfacer uno antiguo.

Say I told you so. They're the four most satisfying words in the English language. You could rupture something trying to keep them inside you.

was that what people had thought of as the good big one now would become the shitty little one. Worse, the quickest way to beget a new desire, Bea knew, was to satisfy an old one, and each new desire had a way of becoming more expensive than the last. If she was foolish enough to gratify her customers' current demands, who knew what they'd dream up next?

Non basta una vita One life isn't enough

We do not want what's good for us.

the quickest way to beget a new desire, Bea knew, was to satisfy an old one...

The world is divided between kids who grew up wanting be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

Wondrous! he thought, how the heart leaps when one is chosen, especially later in life, after one would suppose the time for choosing and being chosen has passed.

Had I been more, I'd be more. Simple.

The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up. Blame love.

It was for this reason he'd always felt that owning things was overrated. All you were doing was alleviating the disappointment of not owning them.

Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).

Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.

Buy Experiences Not Goods. Want to buy happiness? Then spend your hard-earned cash on experiences. Go out for a meal. Go to a concert, cinema or theatre. Go on holiday. Go and learn how to pole dance. Go paintballing. Go bungee jumping. In fact, get involved in anything that provides an opportunity to do things with others, and then tell even more people about it afterwards. When it comes to happiness, remember that it is experiences that represent really good value for money.

When it comes to happiness, remember, it is experiences that represent really good value for the money.

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

Maybe I would've been all right if I could've done something I wanted to do. I wouldn't be scared then. Or mad, maybe. I wouldn't be always hating folks; and maybe I'd feel at home, sort of.

There are men who need to defile themselves in order to get on with their lives.