Quotes About Fulfillment

If I had one wish, I would wish that every good thing I ever wished for would come true.

Somerset Maugham advised, "It's never too late to be what you might have been.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

Mas há uma tristeza. Sinto-me como Ravel, que, ao ver aproximar-se o fim, dizia, num lamento: "Mas há tantas músicas esperando ser escritas!

A nossa vida começa justamente com o advento da inutilidade. Pois o momento da inutilidade marca o início da vida de gozo. Nada mais preciso fazer. Travei as batalhas que tinha de travar. Nada devo a ninguém. Estou livre agora para me entregar ao deleite.

A vida é bela. Pare de namorar a morte! Beba a taça até o fim!

Eu gostaria que uma graça semelhante me fosse concedida: poder preparar o fim da minha vida como um compositor termina a sua sonata – para deixá-la perfeita e completa, como herança àqueles a quem amo, obra de arte acabada e bela. Mas a vida não acontece assim.

Cheguei onde estou por caminhos que não planejei. É um lugar feliz com o qual nunca sonhei.

I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.

There are some lucky people who feel they experience happiness when they gaze at a cloud or walk on the beach but the rest of us only get that special tingly buzz when we've bought, won, achieved, hooked or booked something. Then our own brains give us a hit of dopamine, which makes us feel good. We don't need substances; we are our own drug dealers. The

the gap between wanting and getting, while the 'being' mode has no voice, it's just directly sensing something; and being in the eye of the experience.

You could go through a whole lifetime in your head dreaming of another life, instead of living your own. Steve

Epicurus said that there are only three important ingredients to happiness: friendship, freedom (not to be owned by anyone), and an analysed life. The more you lack these three things, the more you'll want power and money, and they always lead to unhappiness.

Our culture promotes an endless need for fulfillment to always want what the next guy has, even though the effort might kill us.

My final word on this is that only if you find something you love doing and then do it, is life worth living.

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Some day, when I have grown sufficiently, I shall attain that which I am destined to attain

Even if we become glowing clouds of ectoplasm, there's going to be something we're competing for - and most of us will feel as though we're getting screwed.

I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release.

There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

I have never understood why "hard work" is supposed to be pitiable. True, some work is soul destroying when it is done against the grain, but when it is part of "making" how can you grudge it? You get tired, of course, but the struggle, the challenge, the feeling of being extended as you never thought you could be is fulfilling and deeply, deeply satisfying.

When I was a child I remember days that stretched into infinity with the certainty of other infinite days; certain, unhurried and brimmingly full.

So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.