Quotes About Fulfillment

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.

The messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida esté dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible, muy lejos. Sin embargo está ahí, no hostil, no a disgusto, no sordo, viene si uno lo llama con la palabra correcta, por su nombre correcto. Es la esencia de la magia, que no crea, sino llama.

The messiah will come when we don't need him anymore.

Hold fast! then you too will see the unchangeable dark distance, out of which nothing can come except one day the chariot; it rolls up, gets bigger and bigger, fills the whole world at the moment it reaches you - and you sink into it like a child sinking into the upholstery of a carriage that drives through the storm and night.

Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida está dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible muy lejos. Sin embargo está ahí, no hostil, no a disgusto, no sordo, viene si uno lo llama con la palabra correcta, por su nombre correcto, Es la esencia de la magia, que no crea, sino llama.

Beni engelleyenin olgular olduÄŸu pek söylenemez, bir korku, a??labilmesi olanaks?z bir korku var: mutlu olmaktan korkmak, daha yüce bir amaç için kendine ac? verme tutkusu ve buyruÄŸu.

He is a land surveyor, well, perhaps that is something, he has trained at something, but if there's nothing you can do with that training then it means nothing.

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward…

depois, comi o meu jantar de vegetariano, fiquei satisfeito com a minha digestão e tive algumas apreensões quanto a saber se a minha vida bastaria para toda a duração da minha vida.

Llegué hasta alimentar el deseo infantil de no retornar a la obra nunca más, sino instalarme aquí en la proximidad de la entrada y pasar mi vida en la contemplación de ella, no perderla de vista y hallar mi felicidad en la comprobación de la firmeza con que la obra me habría protegido de estar yo en ella.

can venture nothing for myself as long as I have achieved no greater work that satisfies me fully. That is certainly irrefutable.

En kötüsü de sahip olamad???n ÅŸeylere ait olmand?r

Der Sinn für die Darstellung meines traumhaften innern Lebens hat alles andere ins Nebensächliche gerückt, und es ist in einer schrecklichen Weise verkümmert und hört nicht auf, zu verkümmern. Nichts anderes kann mich jemals zufriedenstellen.

Hän ahmaisee tähteet omalta ruokapöydältään. Sen vuoksi hän on hetken ajan muita kylläisempi, mutta samalla hän myös unohtaa kuinka pöydän ääressä syödään, ja sen vuoksi tähteitä ei enää kuulukaan.

Man mußte nur über irgendeine Sache glücklich sein, von ihr erfüllt sein, nach Hause kommen und es aussprechen und die Antwort war ein ironisches Seufzen, ein Kopfschütteln, ein Fingerklopfen auf den Tisch: »Hab auch schon etwas Schöneres gesehn« oder »Mir gesagt Deine Sorgen« oder »ich hab keinen so geruhten Kopf« oder »Kauf Dir was dafür!« oder »Auch ein Ereignis!«

No se hacen promesas para esperanzas aparentemente imposibles de cumplir, pero si llegan a cumplirse, es como si las promesas hubieran estado justo allí donde se las había buscado en vano.

If ever that door offers itself to me again, I swore, I will go in out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return. This time I will stay... I swore it and when the time came — I DIDN'T GO.

I once heard of a young man whose mind was taken up day and night with thoughts of the Castle, he neglected everything else, people feared for his ordinary faculty of reason since all his faculties were always up at the Castle, but in the end it turned out that it wasn't actually the Castle he was thinking of but only the daughter of a scullery maid at the offices, he got her, and then all was fine again.

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.