Quotes About Fulfillment

convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined. The

Be content with your lot.

She was tired these days because she was having job trouble too; her trouble meant she did not know how she could be useful in her life. Dad's job trouble was he had too much to do with his life. Sometimes I just wanted them to even it out but I couldn't think of how.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Having children is life's greatest joy. But there are some people, and maybe you are one of them, who don't like kids, and consider travel life's greatest joy. You shouldn't have kids. Don't have them.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

no one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfilment.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

Beauty is a promise of happiness.

Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough.

However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the modern working world may in the end be internal, consisting in an aspect of our mentalities: in the widely held belief that our work should make us happy. All societies have had work at their centre; ours is the first to suggest that it could be something more than a punishment or a penance. Ours is the first to imply that we should seek to work even in the absence of a financial imperative.

There are two ways to make a man richer, reasoned Rousseau: give him more money or curb his desires.