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Quotes About Fulfillment

Pealegi tabab karistus täitmatu ahnuse eest inimest alati siis - ja just seles seisneb karistuse piinarikas, hävituslik jõud - , kui tal on tunne, et ihaldatud eesmärgini on jäänud vaid samm.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
We wait for it, because we always wait for something that will be big, extraordinary and splendid, that will bring us great joy and fill us with pride while also reminding us that there exists something greater than locking and unlocking the office at the same hour, collecting chicks, flattering the boss, petty swindles, loveless embraces, downtime due to poor work coordination, the songs of Rinaldo Bali?ski, or vodka spilled on the table
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Al vivir, el hombre siente que es todas las personas y todas las cosas, así que no puede anhelar nada puesto tiene todo lo que es posibe tener, y al sentirse todo, no puede hacer daño a nadie ni a nada pues nadie hace daño a uno mismo
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
What is youth? A dream. What is love? The dream's content.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety can be replaced only by the freedom whose harsh requirements are its cause. Being free requires us to release the brakes that anxiety represents in order to accept and appropriate our proper spiritual fulfillment or perhaps even to recognize, if that is what we in the end believe, that no such prospect is in store.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Were I to wish for anything I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the passion of the possible, that eye which everywhere, ever young, ever burning, sees possibility. Pleasure disappoints, not possibility.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Genius never desires what does not exist.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Det er ingen kunst at forføre en pige, men en lykke at finde én, der er værd at forføre.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
What is it to be God's elect? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The fortunate chance in life is that the two correspond, that my wish is my duty and vice versa, and the task of most men in life is precisely to remain within their duty and by their enthusiasm to transform it into their wish.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Love for that princess became for him the expression for an eternal love, assumed a religious character, was transfigured into a love for the Eternal Being, which did to be sure deny him the fulfilment of his love, yet reconciled him again by the eternal consciousness of its validity in the form of eternity, which no reality can take from him.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Happy my lot in life if my desire coincides with my duty, and conversely; and most people's task in life is exactly to stay under their obligation, and by their enthusiasm to transform it into their wish.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
love is all; it gives all and it takes all.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I sacrifice myself for my profession, my wife, my children, or, more properly expressed, I do not sacrifice myself for them, but I find in them my satisfaction and joy.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
What is it to be God's elect ? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The main obligation is to amuse yourself.
~ S.J. Perelman
If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.
~ S.J. Perelman
The story never ends, but our part in the tale does, for a while, and I'm in the mood for some happy-ever-aftering! We earned it, as the Gods themselves know!
~ S.M. Stirling
And one day, God would send another baby, a baby promised to a girl who didn't even have a husband. But this baby would bring laughter to the whole world. This baby would be everyone's dream come true.
~ Sally Lloyd-Jones
He didn't promise to always be there. Whatever Ash might think, Harry knew it was impossible. And there was no point in wishing for impossible things.
~ Sally Malcolm
Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.
~ Salman Rushdie
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.
~ Salman Rushdie