Quotes About Fulfillment

This separate life, this freezing loneliness, she had had enough of it. Why shouldn't she too be happy? Why on earth—the energetic expression matched her mood of rebelliousness—shouldn't she too be loved and allowed to love?

that if one were efficient one wouldn't be depressed, and that if one does one's job well one becomes automatically bright and brisk.

No children, that is. Ernest, in the matter of posterity, had been a blind alley, a cul-de-sac. Strange and sad not to go on in any way, to come to a dead stop.

Up to now I have had fourteen, but they weren't spread over my life equally, and for years and years at a time I had none. This, when first I began considering my dogs, astonished me; I mean, that for years and years I had none. What was I about, I wondered, to allow myself to be dogless? How was it that there were such long periods during which I wasn't making some good dog happy? Lately

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can ever be lonely.

After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.

And then, if I die anytime soon, at least they'll be able to say that I led a productive life and did all my work on time. I may be dead, but I'll be up to date in Space, Time, and Motion.

But in the end, after the curtain dropped over these little dramas, they all seemed able to go back to their rooms and back to their lives, they all seemed to know that it was just a game, that it scuffed you up and wore you out a little, but that you would get on with it. Only I seemed to be left behind, crying and screaming about wanting more, wanting my money back, wanting some satisfaction, wanting to feel something. I was the only person going to a prostitute in search of true love.

it is possible to heal. It is even possible to thrive. Thriving means more than just an alleviation of symptoms, more than Band-Aids, more than functioning adequately. Thriving means enjoying a feeling of wholeness, satisfaction in your life and work, genuine love and trust in your relationships, pleasure in your body.

People who have no choice are generally unhappy. But people with too many choices are almost as unhappy as those who have no choice at all.

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

Para mí solo hay un infortunio: ¡tener que vivir y no poder crear!

The simple act of sailing had carried him beyond the world of reversals, frustrations, and inanities. And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with a thousand petty problems, to one of the barest simplicity in which only one real task remained—the achievement of the goal.

So many worlds, so much to do,So little done, such things to be.

Death closes all: but something ere the end,Some work of noble note, may yet be done,Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.

I will drinkLife to the lees.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

Each creative act is the universe incarnating itself as one, and there is nothing above it by way of final condition.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Fierce midnights and famishing morrows, And the loves that complete and control All the joys of the flesh, all the sorrows That wear out the soul.

Contentment is the capital which will never diminish.

If you cannot get things as much as you desire than be contented with what you have.

Recommended prayers cannot attain the pleasures of God for you when obligatory prayers are left unattended.