Quotes About Fulfillment

He wants to see the child, because that child will bring about the consolation that he seeks; he may not want to see the child, because once he has that encounter, he will die.

Some women think that successful lies in mariage and making children

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.

I'm filled with desire—to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

In point of fact, now that sound has given proof that it came not to destroy but to fulfill the Old Testament of the cinema, we may most properly ask if the technical revolution created by the sound track was in any sense an aesthetic revolution.

The mind of the dreaming man is fully satisfied with whatever happens to it. The agonizing question of possibility does not arise.

Whatever desire or even illusion I may have had to the contrary, perhaps I have not been adequate to what she offered me. But what was she offering me? It does not matter. Only love in the sense I understand it–mysterious, improbable, unique, bewildering, and certain love that can only be foolproof , might have permitted the fulfillment of a miracle.

Avant de te connaître, j'avais rencontré le malheur, le désespoir. Avant de te connaître, allons donc, ces mots n'ont pas de sens. Tu sais bien qu'en te voyant la première fois, c'est sans la moindre hésitation que je t'ai reconnue.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire.

He would have liked it if everyone could have what he dreamed, glory and love, fortune and peace of heart. [On F. Scott Fitzgerald]

Let every emotion be capable of becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game is finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

O mare dragoste nu este de ajuns pentru a lega de tine fiinta pe care o iubesti, daca nu te pricepi sa umpli viata celuilalt cu o bogatie necontenit reimprospatata.

Nedaug rasime toki?, kurie gyvenime nepažino laim?s, bet dar mažiau toki?, kurie sugeb?jo j? išsaugoti.

Si no llevo la contraria no puedo vivir contenta

Maybe I don't know yet how to be happy and play well at the same time.

Many of you, I'm sure, don't like your jobs. But imagine if someone told you right now that your story about me would be your last. After this, you'll never be able to write another word for as long as you live. How would you feel?

joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could be. Now her life seemed to have opened up into it as if it had been waiting for her. (215)