Quotes About Fulfillment

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

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

Gluttony - that's my vice & curse. I want too much of everything. Books... Love... Music... Color & Form... Philosophy... Travel & Adventure... the result of this bestial lust is the indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of my energies - wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave most anytime. Not that I mind too much; I've done everything I ever wanted to do. But ... as you know, one would like to continue doing the good things over and over again, so long as there's pleasure in it.

With an intelligence too fine to be violated by ideas, she had learned that she was searching not for self-transformation (she liked herself) but for something good to do.

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

Death is release, if you've lived all right.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

Sadly, many people spend their entire lives focusing on the wrong questions. They may pursue money, when they really want happiness. They may pursue the respect of people whose favor is really not worthy of being sought.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Only when the sap is dried up, only when age comes on, does the sun shine in vain for man and for the tree.

Life was precious. Life was all that mattered. Yet it meant nothing if you weren't living as you wanted.

Hope is still ahead of you - but someday it will be behind you. That's really the point of children, to have someone to pin hope to.

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

One of the greatest sources of energy is pride in what you are doing.

Next year in Jerusalem!

Be all that you can be.

Good to the last drop!