Quotes About Fulfillment

To be mature you have to realize what you value most. It is extraordinary to discover that comparatively few people reach this level of maturity. They seem never to have paused to consider what has value for them. They spend great effort and sometimes make great sacrifices for values that, fundamentally, meet no real needs of their own.... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Whatever period of life we are in is good only to the extent that we make use of it, that we live it to the hilt, that we continue to develop and understand what it has to offer us and what we have to offer it. The rewards for each age are different in kind, but they are not necessarily different in value or in satisfaction.

Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply to be what is generally called "a success.

What one has to do usually can be done.

unless time is good for something it is good for nothing.

Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can – as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. And not to simply be what is generally called a "success".

Obviously, it requires effort to use all your potentialities to the best of your ability, to stretch your horizon, to grasp every opportunity as it comes, but it is certainly more interesting than holding off timidly, afraid to take a chance, afraid to fail.

Whatever period of life we are in is good only to the extent that we make use of it, that we live it to the hilt, that we continue to develop and understand what it has to offer us and we have to offer it.

HAPPINESS is not a goal, it is a by-product.

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time.

We should be able to realize that making up our minds as to what gives us the greatest amount of pleasure and then working for it, is one of the satisfactions of life.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

When we admit that one can not retrace one's steps and live life over again, we may accept the fact that we might as well savor it and enjoy it as we go along and not always be striving for something in the future which after all we may never achieve nor enjoy.

To be mature you have to realize what you value most. Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive.

it was a good rule not to expect the ideal but to enjoy what is possible.

Diventare. Era un verbo che mi aveva sempre ossessionata [...]. Io volevo diventare, anche se non avevo mai saputo cosa. Ed ero diventata, questo era certo, ma senza oggetto, senza una vera passione, senza un'ambizione determinata.

para el que no es nadie convertirse en alguien es más importante que cualquier otra cosa.

I became anxious if I lost him, I was happy when I saw him return. In other words I loved him and new it and was content to love him.

I was secretly convinced that I would truly exist only at the moment when my signature, Elena Greco, appeared in print...

I became anxious if I lost him, I was happy when I saw him return. In other words I loved him and knew it and was content to love him.