Quotes About Fulfillment

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have 50 million but I was just as happy when I had 48 million.

My definition of living is to have excitement always; that's the difference between living and existing.

The years with Barbara taught me a great lesson: how having a good relationship can enrich your life.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's

Once you see results, it becomes an addiction.

For me, life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to go ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Sommige mensen lijden omdat ze niet hoeven te leven. Ze hebben alles. Hun natje, hun droogje, een dak boven het hoofd. Maar ze hoeven niet te leven, want ze hebben alles. Als ze een boek waren geweest, zou een recensent vast schrijven: 'Aardig, maar de noodzak ontbreekt'.

Is dat niet uiteindelijk de enige opdracht van de mens? Je moet worden wat de anderen in je wensen te zien.

In het algemeen wordt passiviteit te weinig als deugd erkent. Actie lijk altijd beter - want heroïscher - dan rustig afwachten en nietsdoen. Vermoedelijk komt dat ook omdat wij vrijwel allemaal neuroten zijn die de leegte willen opvullen met werk en andere activiteiten.

Roland Oberstein is gelukkig, zou hijzelf verklaren, omdat hij niets wil wat hij niet kan krijgen. Wat hij wil kan hij krijgen. Wat hij niet kan krijgen, wil hij niet. Zo eenvoudig is het recept voor geluk.

Basta-me minha imortalidade,/ o fluir de meu sangue de uma para outra era,/ mas em troca de um canto quente e seguro/ daria de bom grado minha vida,/ conquanto sua agulha voadora/ não me arrastasse, feito linha, mundo afora.

An attitude that avoids enjoyment today only means an evasion of happiness forever. Happiness becomes something for tomorrow and therefore ever elusive.

People think that an expensive car--a stimulus--will lead to a response of happiness. If they have a great paying job--the proper stimulus, they believe--then their response will be happiness. But what if the opposite is true? What if happiness is the stimulus and the response is whatever life brings from that happiness?

I do believe that humans are destined to be released for a more ennobling life

Let us all be happy and live within our means, Even if we have to borrow money to do it with.

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

Lord," W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, perhaps quoting someone, "make us not great but busy.

Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want

Let's take a little quiz. 1. Do you define your self-worth in terms of your job title or professional position? 2. Do you quantify your own success in terms of money, power, or prestige? 3. Do you fail to see clearly—or are you uncomfortable with—what comes after your last professional successes? 4. Is your "retirement plan" to go on and on without stopping? 5. Do you dream about being remembered for your professional successes?

The joy that came to your caveman ancestor from finding a sweet berry on a bush couldn't occupy him for very long, lest he be distracted from the threat of the tiger, for whom your ancestor would make a nice lunch. That's why, when it comes to success, you can't ever get enough.

Far from frustration and depression, he finished out his life as a happy father and reinvented himself as a teacher.

What I found was a hidden source of anguish that wasn't just widespread but nearly universal among people who have done well in their careers. I came to call this the "striver's curse": people who strive to be excellent at what they do often wind up finding their inevitable decline terrifying, their successes increasingly unsatisfying, and their relationships lacking.

satisfaction is possible—just not with the old formulas. We need to toss out all that bad math and use this one equation instead, which incorporates the wisdom of Siddhartha and Thomas and the best modern social science: Satisfaction = What you have ÷ what you want Your satisfaction is what you have, divided by what you want.