Quotes About Fulfillment

As for those ... who can obtain by lawful means whatever they need, how can we consider them poor?

People desperately want to spend their money. Maybe they think that's the most effective way to feel alive.

Maybe there's a place out there where people whose hearts aren't empty can go on living.

Though u have seen many, but u haven't yet seen enough. The good work always pays wonderfully

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their dreams didn't come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true. A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable. Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Quand la femme n'est pas l'ambition suprême de l'homme, quand elle n'est pas la fin de toute initiative en ce monde, la vie ne mériterait ni ses joies ni ses peines

Run after her… One day, man will surely be able to catch a comet, but all the glories of this world will not console the man who allows the real opportunity in his life to slip away.

Was I happy after that? I think so. I experienced moments of pleasure, moments of unforgettable joy; I loved again and dreamed again like a wide-eyed boy. And yet I always felt there was something missing, something that left me somehow crippled, in short that I only every hovered on the fringes of happiness.

Le bonheur n'est pas la récompense de la vertu. Il est la vertu elle-même. 

qui rêve trop oublie de vivre" p:9

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How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry.

They had the shattered look of people given what they'd wished for.

We are not called to be successful in accordance with ordinary standards, but in accordance with a corn of wheat falling into the ground and dying, becoming in that way what it never could be if it were to abide alone.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

just be what you want to be and you will be happy

Fear," said Lobsang. "An instinct that prevents many people from taking actions that they know, deep down inside, would liberate them. Like a bird in a cage whose door has been opened, we are free to go out in search of fulfillment, but fear makes us look for all kinds of reasons not to.

It is the wonderful paradox," he continued, "that the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.

Be wisely selfish, little Snow Lion. Gain happiness for yourself by giving it to others.