Quotes About Fulfillment

Up to then, the joy of fulfilling, perhaps over-fulfilling, their duty had kept them in a state of exultation. Such a state is close to enthusiasm and that makes one insensible to the things of this earth. But their enthusiasm died down, and they had had gradually to return from the land of dreams to the world of reality.

ambicionava voltar a ver em mim DESEJOS sobejamente intensos para submeter à realidade.

It was not man who implanted in himself what is infinite and the love of what is immortal: those lofty instincts are not the offspring of his capricious will; their steadfast foundation is fixed in human nature, and they exist in spite of his efforts. He may cross and distort them – destroy them he cannot. The soul wants which must be satisfied; and whatever pains be taken to divert it from itself, it soon grows weary, restless, and disquieted amidst the enjoyments of sense.

He who has set his heart exclusively upon the pursuit of worldly welfare is always in a hurry, for he has but a limited time at his disposal to reach, to grasp, and to enjoy it.

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man's imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.

We have not to seek to make ourselves like our progenitors, but to strive to work out that species of greatness and happiness which is our own.

We should not strive to resemble our fathers but should strain to achieve a type of greatness and happiness which belongs to us alone.

Listen a me, all you! Listen, man! Gonna sermonize, me. Dig this, you!' He was answered with a roar. 'You pigs, you. You rot like pigs, is all. You got the most in you and you use the least. You hear me, You? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All of you. Every you....

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?

The best way to die is when you're living.

Fourth time's the charm, she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that's not the way she feels about it. She knows now that when you don't lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that's one recipe that can't be tampered with.

Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

Desire, if handled incorrectly, could become a curse.

They learned that sometimes the most dangerous thing of all in matters of live was to be granted your heart's desire.

We know what we need when we get it, Brock Stewart had once said. Elinor understood this to be true whenever she heard Jenny in the hallway, when she looked up from her work in the garden to see a light burning in the kitchen. She knew it when the kettle on the back burner of the stove whistled, when the back door opened and shut, when the house she lived in wasn't empty. She hadn't understood how alone she'd been until she was no longer alone. She had cut herself off...

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.

Sally had returned to school for her degree in library science at Simmons University, and now, at the age of forty-four, she was the director of the Owens Library.

Love is the one thing that's not easy to find. It's an achievement, Eddie, to feel such a glorious emotion, whether it's returned or not. Some men never do.

The place where what someone needs and what she desires cross each other to become one.

She could even forget that she had once been considered the girl most likely to become somebody, when she'd turned out to be nobody in particular.

You could not have all that you wanted, but if you found love, you were fortunate.

Sometimes the most dangerous thing of all in matters of love was to be granted your heart's desire.

If sparrows were meant to fly, and hawks to hunt, and greyhounds to run, then a boy such as Diamond was meant to search for his mother. If he didn't go, if he forgot or thought of himself first, then he wouldn't be Diamond.

We will have to pay a price for being happy?""Everyone does. That's what it means to be alive.