Quotes About Fulfillment

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

A useless life is only an early death

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

from desire I rush to satisfaction; from satisfaction I leap to desire.

An unused life is an early death.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.