Quotes About Fulfillment

At night Ward tossed in self-loathing: how, he wondered, can you want something so badly, finally get it, and yet wind up discontented? And how can it happen so quickly? When he finally could sink into sleep his dreams boiled with faceless devils; he woke--gasping--with their talons on his windpipe.

Our freedom is a personal freedom only when, in it and through it, our persons may flourish, but that is so only in love.

With him, an idea was implemented as soon as it was thought of.

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

Requiem Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you 'grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. (1880-1884)

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

I love life because what more is there?

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it.

In a world full of uncertainties, is it not inherently satisfying to come to the last page with every i dotted and every t crossed?

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it. And if you couldn't buy it, then you would have to steal it.

You know the trouble with this part of the world? It's full of retired bankers and lawyers with too much time on their hands.

Don't be sorry. Our lives don't belong to us, so we can't complain if they're taken away.

There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when even though your destination is concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that lies just ahead of you, there it will be.

There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when, even though your destination is still concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that likes just ahead of you, there it will be.

It was my moment in the sun. I tried to remember if I had left anything out. But no, it was all there.

And that's exactly what we did.

Finding the perfect job, perfect partner, or perfect place is as simple as perfecting yourself.

The most important things in life aren't things.

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.

How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.