Quotes About Fulfillment

Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one.

People so often look with longing into a daydream future, while ignoring the importance of the present. We are all in danger of thinking, "Some day I shall be fulfilled. Some day I shall have the courage to start another life which will develop my talent," without ever considering the very practical use of that talent today in a way which will enrich other people's lives, develop the talent, and express the fact of being a creative creature.

The main trouble with Bill was that along with nine-tenths of the rest of humanity, he had missed his calling.

I looked at him. Then I turned my face away. Beyond my upset I was flooded by a deep happiness, similar to the one he made me feel when forcing me to surrender to his virility. No one else before him had given me this gratification, but I realised now that the longing to be violated, body and soul, must have always been inside me.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Nothing less will content me, than whole America.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Flourishing is the heart of prospering—engagement, meeting challenges, self-expression, and personal growth.

Tell her the joyous time will not be stayedUnlesse she do him by the forelock take.

That here on earth is no sure happiness.

Some people ask if I regret not having a family. Not at all. Some women are cut out to be mommies. Some are superwomen with the stamina to do it all. I am not one of them. My elementary school math teacher was right: I would have been a lousy housewife. Instead I am lucky enough to work and interact with talented and stimulating people on a job where no day is ever the same as any other. And I get to touch thousands of people in some way.

What can death do to you at ninety that life hasn't done to you already!

I drank at every vine. The last was like the first. I came upon no wine So wonderful as thirst.

I would blossom if I were a rose.

Feast" I drank at every vine. The last was like the first. I came upon no wine So wonderful as thirst. I gnawed at every root. I ate of every plant. I came upon no fruit So wonderful as want. Feed the grape and bean To the vintner and monger: I will lie down lean With my thirst and my hunger.

Eran días de irresponsable plenitud, de felicidad imperceptible.

Siempre se piensa mejor con el estómago lleno, dicen los que tienen estómago.

le he visto trabajar estos anos y le auguraba un gran futuro en el marco ce la administración pública. Es usted cumplidor, puntual, serio, respetuoso con sus superiores, no tiene ambición y nunca toma iniciativas.

Nunca se había sentido digno de nada, y mucho menos de semejante mujer. Pero supo que iba a aprovechar mientras pudiera. Hasta que el hechizo se rompiera y todo volviese a ser ratones y calabazas.

A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.