Quotes About Fulfilment

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

It's not about working anymore, it's about doing work I can be proud of.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

meaning is one of our greatest needs, and when it's fulfilled, we can endure any type of suffering with dignity.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

the opposite of happiness is—here's the clincher—boredom.

Atunci cand zeii vor sa-i pedepseasca pe oameni, le indeplinesc dorintele.

"The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom."

I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

We're strange creatures, we humans. At one level, we just want to eat, drink, play, and acquire more stuff. But life on the hedonic treadmill is ultimately dissatisfying. A beautiful remedy is to hop off it and instead begin pursuing an idea that's bigger than you are.

What we will criticize 'modern' eroticism for is its lack of genuine sensuality, a sensuality which implies beauty or charm, passion or modesty, power over the object of desire, and fulfilment.

In the place of the things I have denied myself, I have things that mean more to me than sex, fun and happiness ever could.

The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment. Manicheism is the irreconcilable antagonism between two forces. Morality is merely the opposition of two values. In the order of values, there is always a possibility of reconciliation. The disorder of forces is irreconcilable.

Mi madre odiaba ser una don nadie, así que como todos los niños, adoptados o no, he tenido que vivir algunas de las vidas que ella no pudo vivir. Es algo que hacemos por nuestros padres, no tenemos otra opción.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.