Quotes About Fulfillment

Savine had once felt nowhere more at home than here, flitting from one opportunity to another, hopes and dreams left wrecked in her wake. Now all she wanted was to slit the laces of her corset and sag down with her children, slap the stopper from the decanter and never put it back.

To the starving man, bread is beautiful. To the homeless man, a roof is beautiful. To the drunkard, wine is beautiful. Only those who want for nothing else need find beauty in a lump of rock.

He would've liked his axe to hand, but hoping for a thing often brought on the opposite.

can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort.

Say this life and let it be enough, for once.

Don't die with your music still inside you.11

I've come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I'm always at a loss for words.

I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.

The point is, true happiness has nothing to do with pleasure, because the reliance on feeling good from such intensely stimulating things only moves us further from real joy.

The more whole you feel the less lack you experience, and therefore the less you want.

And let's say that our ambition in life is to become successful and to accumulate more things. When we do, we reinforce who we are, without ever addressing how we really feel. I call this being possessed by our possessions. We become possessed by material objects, and those things reinforce the ego, which needs the environment to remind itself of who it is. If we wait for anything outside us to make us happy,

Si creemos que en cuanto tengamos el dinero para comprar más cosas seremos de lo más felices, lo estamos viendo al revés. Tenemos que sentirnos felices antes de que la abundancia aparezca en nuestra vida.

tu alma te dice: ¡Escúchame atentamente! Nada del exterior te hará feliz. Te estoy intentando avisar. Pero si sigues participando en este juego, voy a dejar de hacerlo y volverás a dormirte. En este caso te veré cuando tu vida se acabe…

Qué sentido tiene querer algo cuando lo tienes todo? Cuando creas desde la plenitud, te embarga la sensación de que ya posees eso que deseas.

What did you want to be when you grew up? What about now? What's on your "bucket list," those things you want to do before you die? What is your calling, the work of your heart and soul? Talk about one of your happiest memories. What made you happy? What could happen out of the blue that would be like a dream come true? What do you want for your children/loved ones that money can buy?

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Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

Seeking personal happiness, more often than not, can make people more selfish. Therefore, feeling happy is better viewed as a by-product of living well rather than an aim in itself.

It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?

I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.

Women offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don't put off their love for a distant, ill-defined eternity but make a gift of it in the here and now.

It was no good being a mother. She wanted to start a website, a public-awareness campaign, a newsletter, to get the word out that if you were a woman and you had a child, you lost everything, you would be held hostage by love: a terrorist who would only be satisfied when you surrendered your entire future.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe. When Wayne fell asleep, his hot cheek against her naked breast, his lips smelling sweetly of the milk from her own body, she felt as if she was the one who had been fed.

It was no good being a mother. She wanted to start a website, a public-awareness campaign, a newsletter, to get the word out that if you were a woman and you had a child, you lost everything, you would be held hostage by love: a terrorist who would only be satisfied when you surrendered your entire future. The