Quotes About Fulfillment

I am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time.

And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up.

She is involved in work her soul must have.

I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have

I believe people exist to be enjoyed.

Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars?

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

There are two ways to surpass your parents. Ones is to achieve the thing they had hoped for. One is somewhat easier: just to live longer.

I'm not courting death; I've far too many books left to read.

If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.

But Anne was asking herself why being queen mattered so much, when the chance for true love was hers for the seizing. And always she came back to the argument that the crown was hers for the seizing too. She had never seen marriage alone as an especially fulfilling estate for women. She had always wanted more in life – and more than she had ever dreamed of would soon, God willing, be in her grasp. There was so much that she could accomplish as queen.

Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.

I devour books the way gluttons gobble their food.

As the wise Cicero said, "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

know winning isn't everything and if all you care about is winning, you'll feel empty—but I haven't won enough to feel empty yet.

The true situation is this: when you are addicted to nicotine and are not smoking, there is something missing.

what we are 'enjoying' when we smoke after a period of abstinence is not the cigarette, but ending the state of wanting or needing it.

artificial void

YOUR NAME IS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN

You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.

The thing about teen idol, Louisa is saying, is he morphs through time. The boys' faces and names change, but the emotional need they fulfill, well, that never changes.

I still remember the little boy who shouted with astonished joy when I told him I was leaving my job at EMF. Are you going to be a Real Mummy now? he asked. Had I not been a real mummy to him while I worked?

Siempre que le amaban se había sentido igual: satisfecho y frío como un témpano

He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing, the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children. Is that the first sign of love? You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.