Quotes About Fulfillment

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

Well, I think every day's a vacation for me. When you really, really like what you're working on, it's like always being on vacation.

So you've gotten very close, you've shared a complete experience. And the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting anyway. Never getting in is the most exciting, but after that waiting to get in is the most exciting.

If you're wiser it doesn't make you happier. One of the girls in one of your movies said something like, ' I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

It makes no since to fight a war that is already won.

become as numerous as the sand in the sea, I am content to wait in faith that HaShem will bring His will to pass.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

And as if he had read her thoughts, the old man murmured, 'What a blessing it is to die in your own bed, under your own roof, with your family surrounding you, full of the knowledge that you have lived as thoroughly as you wanted to.

There was a hierarchy in the universe, she told me, and I would be happy

For how very different a woman will look when she has happiness, Olympia knows, when her beauty emanates from a sense of well-being or from knowing herself to be greatly loved. Even a plain woman will attract the eye if she is happy, while the most elaborately coiffed and bejeweled woman in a room, if she cannot summon contentment, will seem to be merely decorative.

She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

It's by living that you live more.

This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.

El la empujaba a autodestruirse. Hacía que ella deseara y luego no le daba ninguna satisfacción.

Part of the danger of living so long, knowing you were going to come back and back again, was putting off your life until you never lived it at all. Just so it was possible. Just so long as you could, you never actually did. Just so you didn't ruin it.

maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. maybe its about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place.

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.

Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more.

Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn't want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature.