Quotes About Fulfillment

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.

I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything through my infidelity.

Las capacidades exigen ser usadas y tan solo cesan en su exigencia cuando son usadas adecuadamente. Es decir, las capacidades son también necesidades. (El hombre autorrealizado, pág. 303)

Llega a ser lo que eres».

cuanto mayor es la dificultad, mayor es la satisfacción al superarla

It's not by pursuing but by abandoning our desires that real satisfaction can be found.

What wisdom and what virtue there is in judging oneself truly and in remaining oneself! You have a part that only you can play; and your business is to play it to perfection, instead of trying to force fortune. Our lives are not interchangeable. Equally by aiming too high and by falling too low, one misses the path to the goal. Go straight ahead, in your own way, with God for guide.

One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

Un amor como el mío es un don de la vida. Todos, aun a su pesar, tendrían que haberme dado la enhorabuena... Pero estos amores son aborrecidos, anatematizados, y, aunque no se diga (porque la envidia pregona una insuficiencia), envidiados también. El mundo no ha sido hecho por los felices ni para los felices.

Bueno es saber que los vasos nos sirven para beber; lo malo es que no sabemos para qué sirve la sed.

Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

Hoy es siempre todavía, toda la vida es ahora. Y ahora, ahora es el momento de cumplir las promesas que nos hicimos. Porque ayer no lo hicimos, porque mañana es tarde. Ahora.

I knew very well I couldn't give you many things you desired, but then neither will any other woman because what you want doesn't exist and you don't know how to want what's closest to you.

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

One learns not to need by needing.

K? ti?p nh?n s? ??n ??c c?a mình ?? ? l?i m?t mình v?i nó, không bao gi? hoàn t?t vi?c ti?p nh?n nó.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

E anche questo mi dà il senso di una libertà bella e superflua, come quando hai pensato a lungo di fare una certa cosa e finalmente ci sei riuscito. E ora, che fare?