Quotes About Fulfillment

The unity achieved in productive work is not interpersonal; the unity achieved in orgiastic fusion is transitory; the unity achieved by conformity is only pseudo-unity. Hence, they are only partial answers to the problem of existence. The full answer lies in the achievement of interpersonal union, of fusion with another person, in love.

Man seeks for drama and excitement; when he cannot get satisfaction on a higher level, he creates for himself the drama of destruction.

If you love without calling forth love, that is, if your love as such does not produce love, if by means of an expression of life as a loving person you do not make of yourself a loved person, then your love is impotent, a misfortune.

Whether a carpenter makes a table, or a goldsmith a piece of jewelry, whether the peasant grows his corn, or the painter paints a picture, in all types of creative work the worker and his object become one, man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. This, however, holds true only for productive work, for work in which I plan, produce, see the result of my work. In the modern work process of a clerk, the worker on the endless

The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Life is richness in many forms. We should all find our own.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

He dreamed of becoming a fully illustrated man.

I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.

Mutual interests and mutual passion were all very well as far as they went, he thought, but they were no longer enough. He needed more from Prudence. He wanted her to love him. The extent of his need for her love made him uneasy, but he could no longer deny it.

There is no human hope without the promise of ecstasy.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

This is the film I could finally get cast in.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

once a man has tasted strong drink, he finds wine insipid

Live it well and this life can be grand.

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

For the woman within, if she be of noble strain, is never content with what she has attained; she unceasingly presses forward, in lively hope of some better way, or some more tangible truth.

The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Human life can be liken to that of a flower, its beautiful when it blooms, though yours may delay but when it blooms, it will be the rarest and the most beautiful of all.

A contented mind is a continual feast.

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.

Dreams are wishes your heart makes.