Quotes About Fulfillment

affairs are less about sex than about desire: the desire to feel desired, to feel special, to be seen and connected, to compel attention. All these carry an erotic frisson that makes us feel alive, renewed, recharged. It is more energy than act, more enchantment than intercourse.

When we cordon off our erotic interiors, we are left with sex that is truncated, devoid of vibrancy, and not particularly intimate. What people fail to see is that dull, boring sexual relationships are often a consequence of shutting down the imagination in just this way.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When

Today we have sex because we're in the mood, we feel like it—hopefully, with each other; preferably, at the same time; and ideally, with unflagging passion for decades on end.

It's not our desires that are different today, but the fact that we feel we deserve—indeed, we are obligated—to pursue them. Our primary duty is now to ourselves—even if it comes at the expense of those we love. As Pamela Druckerman points out, "Our high expectations for personal happiness might even make us more likely to cheat. After all, aren't we entitled to an affair, if that's what it takes to be fulfilled?

But in a culture that mandates individual fulfillment and lures us with the promise of being happier, never have we been more tempted to stray. Perhaps this is why we condemn infidelity more than ever even as we practice it more than ever.

Getting what we want undermines the thrill of wanting it.

Home, marriage, and motherhood have forever been the pursuit of many women, but also the place where women cease to feel like women.

The era of pleasure has arrived.

These stories make a critical point—many affairs are less about sex than about desire: the desire to feel desired, to feel special, to be seen and connected, to compel attention. All these carry an erotic frisson that makes us feel alive, renewed, recharged. It is more energy than act, more enchantment than intercourse.

Love arises from within ourselves as an imaginative act, a creative synthesis that aims to fulfill our deepest longings, our oldest dreams, that allows us both to renew and transform ourselves." Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.

Oscar Wilde wrote, "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When our desires are unfulfilled, we

Expect nothing, and you will enjoy everything!

People love to apply themselves to games, jobs, relationships, politics, to create the illusion of meaning...If I can just heal my shoulder, then I could be a quarterback! If only I could finish this documentary and tell the story of my great-uncle to the world; then I would matter . If I was a movie star, then I would exist . People will light a crack pipe or steal a television just to try and feel that they exist

He loved happiness like I love tea.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together, he said. I like to see a thing finished.

Bucuriile mele sunt triste pentru c? ele manifest? o acceptare a nu ÅŸtiu c?ror legi inferioare. Sunt deficiente fa?? de orice tristeÅ£e care nu trebuie s? priveasc? decât neîmplinirea mea în absolut.

Vivons notre vie, soyons heureux. Nous avons le devoir d'être heureux.

I've longed for fulfillment and all I find is torment. I had to choose between peace and passion. I chose passion, fool that I was!

Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy.

On my solemn oath, Edmund, I'd gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in the bank, I'd be willing to have no home but the poorhouse in my old age, if I could look back now on having been the fine artist I might have been.

Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy. But beyond that it is entirely up to you. You've got to do for yourself all the seeking and finding concerned with what you want to do. Anyone but yourself is useless to you there.

No creáis nunca que los opulentos son dichosos hasta no llegar su última hora.

The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.