Quotes About Fulfillment

From all your herds, a cup or two of milk, From all your granaries, a loaf of bread, In all your palace, only half a bed: Can man use more? And do you own the rest? —ANCIENT SANSKRIT POEM

You can't always get what you want But if you try sometime you find You get what you need

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

In other words, the most common problem now is not social taboos on sexual activity or guilt feeling about sex in itself, but the fact that sex for so many people is an empty, mechanical and vacuous experience.

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before." --

These poets and other creative persons are the ones who express being itself, he held. As I would put it, these are the ones who enlarge human consciousness. Their creativity is the most basic manifestation of a man or woman fulfilling his or her own being in the world.

He had a good dream, to come out number one." But the other son accurately sees the contradiction which such an upheaval of values leads to, "He never knew who he was."*

But they do not talk long before they make it clear that they expect the marriage partner, real or hoped-for, to fill some lack, some vacancy within themselves; and they are anxious and angry because he or she doesn't.

namely that man does not grow automatically like a tree, but fulfills his potentialities only as he in his own consciousness plans and chooses.

h?nh phúc là cái gì Ä'ó có th? ??t tá»›i, ch? c?n tìm th?y thiên hÆ°á»›ng sâu xa trong mình r?i h?t lòng vá»›i nh?ng gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên c? b?n thân.

Life is never too short, we just don't do what we want with it.

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty. This is the rightful order.

I've decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I've been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head.

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

All that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.

All that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria. And so, I make love and I write.

The profoundest motive which leads us toward the saints is the desire simply to be in their company — to abide with them. It is love seeking the communion of those who have dedicated their lives to love and who are now fulfilled in it; it is the desire for that holy atmosphere in which the soul can breathe and for the mysterious current which nourishes it; it is the longing for the answer to the ultimate meaning of existence.

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.