Quotes About Fulfillment

your behaviour must be such that when you go to bed at night you will be happy with what you have done during the day

In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be underdeveloped in every other way.

It's my worst trouble, getting fond. If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

But, like all human beings, she still had unfulfilled longings. She could still be as lonely and frightened as a child, and with as little reason.

In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. A House Like a Lotus

Pleasing a woman, hearing the sultry words spill from her lips as he pushed her over the edge, that's what got him off.

So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.

What redemption there is in being loved: we are always our best selves when loved by another. Nothing can replace this.

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

Go to sleep now and rest. Our job is done. You kept your promise, and I kept mine...

On the wall was a dress that I embroidered. It said Ich Habe Genug. Which is a Bach Cantata. Which I once thought meant I've had it, I can't take anymore, give me a break. But I was wrong. It means I have enough. And that is utterly true. I happen to be alive. End of discussion. But I will go out and buy a hat.

Working really hard is what successful people do, and the genius of the culture formed in the rice paddies is that hard work gave those in the fields a way to find meaning in the midst of great uncertainty and poverty.

That late bloomers bloom late because they simply aren't much good until late in their careers.

complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

If I offered you a choice between being an architect for $75,000 a year and working in a tollbooth every day for the rest of your life for $100,000 a year, which would you take? I'm guessing the former, because there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that's worth more to most of us than money.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance

there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that's worth more to most of us than money.

Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It

But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are. Those three things - autonomy, complexity and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine to five. It's whether our work fulfills us.

Hard work is a prison only if it does not have meaning

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

success follows a predictable course.