Quotes About Fulfillment

What is the arc of the plot of one's life? I want! I want!

Era come se lo stomaco pensasse di essere il cuore. E non importava quanto lo riempissi... di uomini, di libri, di cibo, di biscotti allo zenzero a forma di uomo, di poesie a forma di uomo e di uomini a forma di poesie... rifiutava di calmarsi. Senza fondo... ecco com'era. Ninfomania del cervello. Denutrizione del cuore.

Maybe she will make our wishes come true before we burn her.

Tot el m-a ajutat ÅŸi s? cred în tine. Sunt plin? de iubire, Doamne, parc? m? arde pe din?untru, mi-a d?ruit atâta, încât s?-mi ajung? pentru toÅ£ii anii de-acum încolo.

J'aurais travailler lentement, en prenant bien mon temps, je ne voulais pas faire du chiffre, ou voir défiler les clients, non. La lenteur, c'est ça, le secret du bonheur.

Compiere un'azione notevole è meglio che essere notati».

A chciaÅ'byÅ› ?y? wiecznie? - Nie w ten sposób! Sze??dziesiÄ…t czy siedemdziesiÄ…t lat czegoÅ› takiego zupeÅ'nie wystarczy. Ale gdybym byÅ' bogaty, tak. - Przecie? bogactwo doczesne jest niczym. - SÅ'owo bogacza.

Je ne veux pas triompher, je veux vivre.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.

Man's happiness today consists in "having fun." Having fun lies in the satisfaction of consuming and "taking in" commodities, sights, food, drinks, cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies—all are consumed, swallowed. The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones—and the eternally disappointed ones.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

Greed?has no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.

To be fully awake is the condition for not being bored, or being boring—and indeed, not to be bored or boring is one of the main conditions for loving. To be active in thought, feeling, with one's eyes and ears, throughout the day, to avoid inner laziness, be it in the form of being receptive, hoarding, or plain wasting one's time, is an indispensable condition for the practice of the art of loving.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to "labor" for something and "to make something grow

Not the man who has much, but the man who is much is the fully developed, truly human man.

But in many individuals in whom separateness is not relieved in other ways, the search for the sexual orgasm assumes a function which makes it not very different from alcoholism and drug addiction. It becomes a desperate attempt to escape the anxiety engendered by separateness, and it results in an ever-increasing sense of separateness, since the sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily. All