Quotes About Fulfillment

me that the gods had given me everything

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Pleasure is seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

That I want nothing," said the Prince, "or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint; if I had any known want, I should have a certain wish; that wish would excite endeavour, and I should not then repine to see the sun move so slowly towards the western mountains, or to lament when the day breaks, and sleep will no longer hide me from myself.

Unless a Woman has an Amorous Heart, She is a Dull Companion.

I was not born for courts or great affairs;I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.Pope.

Ng??i tiêu xài nhi?u nhÆ° ti?t ki?m ???c chính là ng??i hài lòng nh?t, b?i anh ta có c? hai ni?m vui.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

I have long known that splendour of reputation is not to be counted among the necessaries of life, and therefore shall not much repine if praise be withheld till it is better deserved.

For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Church means giving up the fantasy that we can find fulfillment and righteousness alone. It means doing things at inconvenient times with eccentric people in sometimes clumsy ways--because life is a team game, and on judgment day God will have nothing to say to us if we think we can come without the others.

There is no rulebook in this lifetime, but rather a book of blank pages of which you are the author.

We all know people who are stimulating, fun, easygoing, and enjoyable to be with. When we're with them, we feel better about ourselves, and when we leave them, we feel satisfied, as if we've been given something to take with us. These are the energy boosters of the world—they send out "happy signals" because they're happy with themselves.