Quotes About Fulfillment

A volte i piccoli sogni avevano grandezza, pensò con dignità. A volte, i piccoli sogni erano tutto quello di cui aveva bisogno una persona per vivere

Yes. You couldn't make anyone else happy. He tried to tell himself that, and drink through the buzzing little voice saying that, for a few short weeks, he actually had made someone else happy. And Owen had made him happy too.

Well, sometimes small dreams had grandeur, he thought with dignity. Sometimes, the small dreams were all a person needed to live.

Twenty-eight years, Kenny," Will panted. "Twenty-eight years thinking sex was for the lucky and the brave. Then I find out I can close my eyes, think of you, and become a frickin' god—now c'mon and make me a god!

You're not even looking at the view, Xan." "I'm looking at all I need to.

Brandon's furious desire to care for Taylor surprised him, but it also invigorated him. He'd been waiting all his adult life to have a prince come sweep him off his feet. Imagine his shock to find that he was the prince, and he had a job to do.

Climax was a roaring, gentle thing from the pit of his stomach. Trav's body in his arms should have grounded him, but instead they flew, flew together, and Trav's groan against Mackey's shoulder, the hot spurt of his come in Mackey's ass, that was the crescendo, the soaring of the heavens against his face, the ocean roaring of the wind in his ears.

Damn, Trav wanted this, had barely dared dream of it, yearned for the time Mackey Sanders would be old enough, whole enough, well enough, to possess like this, like a man, an equal, a partner.

They stood back the Friday after Christmas and looked it over, both of them sweaty and filthy and really, really glad that they could turn the water back on after the incident with the water main when they were replacing the toilet. "We did good,

There would be no intimacy unless Ace willed it to be, and getting his asshole destroyed by the crisp-moving, slow-talking military man would have simply been a way for Jackson to be all he could be.

was daylight at the end of the tunnel. A long, lifetime of a tunnel, into the best, most glorious day.

This was why men fell asleep when they came. They wanted to remember life this way.

She sighed. "Okay. But unless something else good comes along, I'm stopping at eight!

I like knowing that people live good lives. You know dancers—it's all drama and pain and bad relationships and obsession. I like knowing that your life didn't hurt. It makes me happy.

You don't have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.

Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Quand vous êtes venue, vous m'étiez vin rouge et miel, Et votre goût me brûla la langue de sa douceur, À présent vous voilà pain matinal, Mou et agréable. Je vous goûte à peine, tellement votre saveur m'est connue, Pourtant je suis complètement nourrie.

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

While dissatisfaction implies either rejection or frustrated pursuit of satisfaction, unsatisfaction is something more like acceptance combined with anticipation. It is acknowledgement of desire without the demand that it be satisfied--a kind of openness that doesn't ask for closure. It is desire that can live with deferral, an embrace of the God-shaped vacuum in us and a commitment to stop trying to make it full, a healthy hunger that is content to wait for the feast.

Lane kept trying to find her happiness in men, but it didn't work. Is that something you relate to personally?

the thing about Steven is, everyone wants him to fill the hole we have in our lives.

It is no grcat thing to livc long, nor cvcn to livc for cvcr; but it is a grcat thing to live well.

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.

Christian missionaries who seek to bring Jews the "good news of Jesus" do not do so because they hate Jews; they do so because they love Jews. On the other hand, the message that Jews are not "complete" or "fulfilled" unless they accept Jesus as the Messiah is not likely to be received by most Jews with great warmth; it is tantamount to telling Christians that their religion is incomplete or erroneous without acceptance of the Qur'an. Thus,