Quotes About Fulfillment

If flying meant that much to him, how had it felt to set himself a course that would deny him what he wanted most?

An accident of birth had signed her death warrant. He could mark her name off his to-do list.

There's a baby inside you right now," he said, leaning forward to trace her collarbone with kisses as Emma gave in and let her hips move of their own accord. "And as soon as you're over having this one, I'm going to put another in you, Emma. And then another. I'm going to have you morning, noon, and night—" "Ooooh," Emma groaned helplessly, as he cut off his own words by closing his mouth over one of her nipples.

How much slower the work went when the joy of it was gone.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters

As a matter of fact, He doesn't do things—He embodies them. We live; He is life. We love; He is love. We think; He is knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. We dream; He is the fulfillment of every dream, even ones we are not yet capable of conceiving.

Rather than compete for what was never meant for you . . . you would have the energy to discover what is yours.

You can be in love and still feel incredibly lonely. You can have everything you ever wanted, only to realize that you wanted all the wrong things. You can have a husband as smart and sexy and compassionate as mine, and yet not really have him at all.

Without sadness, there can be no happiness, which means a state of eternal bliss really wouldn't be that blissful. In fact, at a certain point, it would be mostly annoying. Nothing to strive for, nothing to look forward to, nothing to do.

That's a central life question, don't you think? Do you regret the things you did, or the things never done?

go one of two ways—an underachieving drunk or an overachieving workaholic. Since

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

If a woman is happy, then your society is happy.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.