Quotes About Fulfillment

Do you think it is sad for people to struggle their entire working life just to get by, only to retire into guaranteed poverty? I know I do. And the reason I feel this way is because we all have so much potential to do better.

But after a career of dissipation she seems delighted to settle down.

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."7

Tienes cabeza, tienes conocimientos. Podrías vivir en vez de vegetar. —¿Y tú qué sabes de mi vida, androide? No importa lo que se tiene; lo jodido es lo que se añora.

La insatisfacción de los humanos, ese querer siempre algo más, algo mejor, algo distinto, es el origen de innumerables desdichas.

Hay que convertir la vida en un sueño y volver realidad los sueños.

Os deseo un año de salud, de satisfacciones, de buen trabajo, un año durante el cual tengáis cada día el gusto de vivir, sin esperar que los días que hayan tenido que pasar para encontrar su satisfacción y sin tener necesidad de poner esperanzas de felicidad en los días que hayan de venir.

E, por outro lado, o que seria pior? A dor da felicidade perdida ou a amargura gelada do não vivido, da felicidade nunca atingida?

No he conocido días más hermosos que éstos: es la culminación de mi existencia. Esto es ciertamente la plenitud. El esplendor de la flor, toda abierta, radiante y temblorosa, justo un instante antes de marchitarse.

For women, the life choices (which by in large are made for them by their societies) come down to one of two evils - either the overloaded worker / wife / mother with her double burden, or the underoccupied housewife / drone with her half-life of deprivation and despair.

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

you've got enough

Señora 4: ¿Se trata de agradar siempre a los hombres? Lupita: No hay otra alternativa, si pensamos que nuestra misión en el mundo es perpetuar la especie.

Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!

Money doesn't make you happy, Mom insists, whipping carrots and lettuce out of the cart. Money doesn't make you laugh when you're lonely, or make you full of contentment on Christmas morning.

But we can't lead our lives in fear of what might be. So live each day to its utmost, only then will you be free. (Poem by Chast's mother)

It is this fulfillment motif that is so critical to interpreting not only the Sermon on the Mount but the larger role of Jesus in the drama of Holy Scripture.

Já foi dito que a conquista da glória é um processo que se inicia com um impulso destrutivo e se encerra com a "obtenção de um triunfo vingador".

uns fogem do amor e outros procuram com sofreguidão, mas no fim o que fica, em todos, é a mesma coisa, uma insuportável sensação de vazio.

There are so many dreams to be fulfilled, but Ultima says a man's destiny must unfold itself like a flower, with only the sun and the earth and water making it blossom, and no one else meddling in it

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

For Kim did nothing with an immense success.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!