Quotes About Fulfillment

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

She had become the answer to prayers he hadn't known he whispered.

He worked as an agent for the same reason people worked as accountants and lawyers and corporate clerks. Because he was good at it. Because he liked the challenge. Because when the job was done right, he felt good about himself.

I love sex. The harder the better. A moment where I don't have to think, where I can escape my own mind? Afterwards, I might even get a good night's sleep. But the minute it's over, you're gonna want what you're gonna want, and I'm still gonna be me.

Because that's the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.

Everything she needed, too, she couldn't deny.

I'm going to lick you all over before this night is over, Sara, ... Suck your nipples until you are crazy with need, then spread you wide and lick you until you come and then, I'm going to do it all over again. I'm going to make sure you are so thoroughly fucked that being fucked has a new meaning.

The end of starvation is quite delicious.

They say life is short, but the truth is, motherhood is short.

In our old age, smaller pleasures assume greater importance, don't you think?

didn't get to live the full life she deserved. Our feelings were bittersweet, all the time. I was hoping that someday, there would be more sweetness than bitterness

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

Maybe our lives are like gigantic jigsaw puzzles. You find the right piece and suddenly the whole picture has meaning.

When in the world did anyone die from a dream?

Because inside we still carry the dreams of what could have been, of what should have been, of what we wish could still be. This doesn't mean we aren't content. We are content, but the romantic longings of our girlhood have never entirely left us. It's like Yen-Yen said all those years ago: 'I look in the mirror and I'm surprised by what I see.' I look in the mirror and still expect to see my Shanghai-girl self- not the wife and mother I've become.

To believe in dreams is to spend half your life asleep.

Tuhan memang menciptakan perempuan, namun Dia lupa menciptakan kebahagiaan.

All women on earth-and men too, for that matter-hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, and gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

Si a los tres años eres feliz, serás feliz a los ochenta.»

This will come when I can no longer bring children into the world—

Fate sent you in one direction, Destiny sent me in another.

How good it felt, to do some good, here and there. Perhaps this was what it meant to be an adult. To grab the opportunity at hand, make the most of the day, regardless of what it looked like.

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

Birdie wondered why that so often seemed to be the case—once you had what you wanted, it was a shadow of what you'd dreamed it to be.