Quotes About Fulfillment

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

The World exists for you ; Build therefore your own world

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be

A man is fed, not that he may be fed, but that he may work.

The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

The man is only a half himself, the other half is his expression

Every man is an impossibility until he is born; every thing impossible until we see a success.

It is not length of life, but depth of life

The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end; and nature hides in his happiness her own ends, namely, progeny, or the perpetuity of the race.

Abundance is not a result you create. It is an existing state you recognize. We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you lived and lived well.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

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Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,—the sweet, without the other side,—the bitter.

Finish everyday and be done with it. You have done what you could.