Quotes About Fulfillment

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. ("A Story About The Most Important Thing")

But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.

A woman accepted anything from life and made it the best; a man bargained for the better but also the less perfect.

Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming yesterday.

All the girls, other than me, wanted the same things: to own a pair of stockings so their legs would not look bare and childish in their humiliating ankle socks; to have the best notebooks to record song lyrics, those sickeningly sweet words of dreams and loves and hearts; to be praised by the teachers, but more importantly, to be admired and envied by one another; to catch the attention of the right boys.

Most men are undertakers of their women's dreams. And, of course, most women are undertakers of their men's dreams, too.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

You have to understand the purpose of life, the purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

Your wealth will increase, your values will increase, your projection will increase, if you simply love to live, just love yourself and live yourself.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

When you do what you know is right,' Father explained, 'you find a dignity in yourself that makes you a happy person.

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one -- to multiply and replenish the earth.

I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair

Um, I made 15 copies [of The Shack] at Office Depot. It did everything I ever wanted it to do -- in those 15 copies. All of the rest of this is, I think, you know, is part of God's great sense of humor. And I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

It's better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you'll end up paying with your life.

My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.

When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.

I've known supreme happiness, and I'm not greedy enough to want what I have to go on forever. Every dream ends. Wouldn't it be foolish, knowing that nothing lasts forever, to insist that one has a right to do something that does? [...]but, if eternity existed, it would be this moment.

A woman is never so drunk with happiness as when she discovers desire in the eyes of a man

Fin dall'inizio ogni mia fantasia fu tinteggiata di disperazione, stranamente compiuta e somigliante di per se stessa a desiderio struggente

When we plot the happiness of another, we unconsciously impute to the other person what is in another form the dream in which our own happiness is fulfilled. Thus by not thinking of our own happiness we make it possible for ourselves to become egotistic.