Quotes About Fulfillment

You see a person with kids," she said, "and you see how happy they are to be a parent, and you're attracted to their happiness. Impossibility is attractive. You know, the safety of dead-ended things.

Her very difficulty created friction, and friction led to satisfaction...

His life was much fuller than hers, and the breathing space this gave her was welcome. If she wanted his complete attention again, all she had to do was put his hands on her body; he was not undoglike himself in this regard.

I guess I was just trying to say that the Internet is good at satisfying needs from a distance. Male or female.

I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outrun time, but you can still escape time if you're contented, because then time doesn't matter.

He goes from one sensation to another — but no satisfaction.

Que una persona no dé buen uso a su vida no significa que su vida deje de transcurrir. De hecho, su vida transcurre aún más deprisa.

Sometimes you imagine something for so long, you find that you have no choice but to do it.

Well, just remember," Gary said, "there's more to life than cooking. You're at a stage now where you need to start thinking about what you really want and how you're going to get it.

Ever since he'd discovered a secret passageway out of self-alienation, in the form of giving himself pleasure while also receiving it, he'd increasingly resented any activity that took him away from it.

There were a thousand things she wanted from life, and since few were available at home [...], she had forcibly channeled all her wanting into the numbered days, the mayfly lifetime, that the luxury cruise would last. For months the cruise had been her mind's safe parking space, the future that made her present bearable [...].

Happiness, Buddha once said, is actually quite simple: The secret is to want what you have and not want what you don't have. Simple

And she had discovered the best reason, the one that trumps all others: She did it because she liked the way it made her feel. Is

Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

the desire to wring out a few more drips of happiness almost always destroyed the happiness you were so lucky to have, and so foolish never to acknowledge.

Money can't buy you happiness, but happiness isn't everything.

There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.'" Jacob

It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

Before they had kids, if asked to conjure images of parenthood they would have said things like Reading in bed, and Giving a bath, and Running while holding the seat of a bicycle. Parenthood contains such moments of warmth and intimacy, but isn't them. It's cleaning up. The great bulk of family life involves no exchange of love, and no meaning, only fulfillment. Not the fulfillment of feeling fulfilled, but of fulfilling that which now falls to you.

One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.