Quotes About Fulfillment

Si un travail prenant et rémunérateur, une amitié intéressante et peu exigeante, et une demeure confortable sont les meilleures bases du bonheur, alors les mois suivants furent sans doute les plus agréables que j'eusse connus.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. Imperial Hotel note paper, Tokyo Japan, 1922

Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.

Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Un uomo felice è troppo soddisfatto del presente per pensare molto al futuro

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.

N'essayez pas de devenir un homme qui a du succès. Essayez de devenir un homme qui a de la valeur.

Cercare di diventare non un uomo di successo, ma un uomo di valore

Todo hombre de buena voluntad debe intentar, valerosamente, en su medida y en su ambienta, llevar esta doctrina del hombre perfecto a la práctica. Si lo consigue sin que lo repudien o prohíban sus contemporáneos, tiene derecho a sentirse satisfecho de sí mismo y de su sociedad.

Celui qui ressent sa vie et celle d'autres comme dénuées de sens est fondamentalement malheureux puisqu'il n'a aucune raison de vivre.

Aucun destin ne justifierait une quelconque exaltation de quiconque