Quotes About Fulfilment

You mean,' Captain Penderton said, 'that any fulfilment obtained at the expense of normalcy is wrong, and should not be allowed to bring happiness. In short, it is better, because it is morally honourable, for the square peg to keep scraping around the round hole rather than to discover and use the unorthodox square that would fit?'…'I don't agree

I like the minute when I can get off the stage and go home, and I know I've done a good job.

whether it is food, sensual pleasures, money, a relationship, social status, or success. But so long as we have the energy of craving in us, we're never satisfied with what we have and with who we are right now, and true happiness is not possible.

More than ever he longed to be in some world where personal ambition was not the only recognized form of progress—such, perhaps, as might have been the case at some time or other in the silvery globe then shining upon him.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

I might as well add that I have enjoyed writing this book more than any other I can remember.

True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments....

a life well lived requires activities that serve no other purpose than the satisfaction that the activity itself generates.

if your life consists only of actions whose "worth depends on the existence of problems, difficulties, needs, which these activities aim to solve," you're vulnerable to the existential despair that blooms in response to the inevitable question, Is this all there is to life? One solution to this despair, he notes, is to follow Aristotle's lead and embrace pursuits that provide you a "source of inward joy.

That night I learned there are two kinds of hunger. The first I can satisfy with cheeseburgers and chocolate milk, but there's a second part of me, biding it's time. It can go on like that for months, maybe even years, but sooner or later I'll give in to it. It's like there's a great big hole inside me, and once it takes his shape he's the only thing that can fill it.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.… Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful…that's what matters to me.

This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

A fleet of ships greater in number than all the war fleets the Empire had ever supported landed their cargoes on Trantor each day to feed the forty billions of humans who gave nothing in exchange but the fulfilment of the necessity of untangling the myriads of threads that spiralled into the central administration of the most complex government Humanity had ever known.

Many of us daughters have had to live the lives that our mothers could not.

En nu wist ze wat geluk was: dat bereiken waar je al zo lang op heb gewacht

And he (King David) died in a good old age, full of days, riches and honour.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

I'm not a masochist. I'm simply into trying to enjoy what I do, because otherwise there's no point.

Running out the tunnel and hearing my name called out for the first time, stepping out before the game. I just had a different type of feeling, it was amazing, like I actually made it to the NBA.

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

I didn't start drag because I thought it would be a ticket to anything. I did it for my own narcissistic fulfilment. When I started selling records, going on tour, doing TV... I never expected any of it.