Quotes About Fulfillment

we have forgotten its initial purpose, which was to ensure the worker's well-being.

Yes, you want your children to be happy. But sometimes they have to be unhappy in the short term to be happy in the long term. As parents, our job is to give our children what they need, not just what they want.

Community and cooperation . . . Communion is based on some common inner expression of love; it is the recognition of being one body, one people, called by God to be a source of love and peace. Its fulfilment is more in silence than in words, more in celebration than in work . . . When a community is just a place of work, it is in danger of dying.

I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now . Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant...I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it.

The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings. The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

One does not miss what one has never had.

Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose all sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

Yang terpenting bukanlah kenikmatan-kenikmatan berskala besar, melainkan bagaimana kita mampu mengeksploitasi yang kecil-kecil secara maksimal.

These are the happiest girls I ever saw—and I am the happiest of all!

Most people don't live; they just race.

You mustn't get me used to too many luxuries. One doesn't miss what one has never had; but it's awfully hard going without things after one has commenced thinking they are his.

À ce moment-là, je crois, j'ai pris conscience qu'aucune existence, si heureuse ou brillante fût-elle, ne me suffirait jamais. Il vient toujours un moment où le rêveur, qui d'ordinaire se croit heureux parce que ses songes l'emportent sans cesse ailleurs, prend conscience de son malheur.

Ce qui la marqua le plus intensément fut le plaisir un peu ironique que l'on éprouve lorsqu'une prévision se vérifie, qu'un calcul tombe juste, qu'une intuition se trouve confirmée par les faits.

It was exciting for him to be good at something after a lifetime of mediocrity in Tamaulipas.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

Not the kind of passionate, thrilling happy that can quickly turn into disappointment, but the calm happy that comes when life is steadily going along just the way it should.

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.

Nicicând pl?cerea nu adusese cuiva at?ta durere.

The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.