34 Quotes Tagged: fulfillment

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

If one would live well, one must live completely, with the whole being — with the body and the instincts, as well as with the conscious mind. A life lived, as far as may be, exclusively from the consciousness and in accordance with the considered judgments of the intellect, is a stunted life, a half-dead life.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

Happiness happens when you have a bigger purpose than having more fulfills, which is why we say happiness happens on the way to fulfillment.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.

Always having what we want
may not be the best good fortune
Health seems sweetest
after sickness, food
in hunger, goodness
in the wake of evil, and at the end
of daylong labor sleep.

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle

When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.

I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Cette nuit de vol et ses cent mille étoiles, cette sérénité, cette souveraineté de quelques heures, l'argent ne les achète pas.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

The more we enjoy the journey of life, the faster we attain our dreams.

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

But we do have something we never had before: we have the added pressure of time. We can no longer wait around for the ideal opportunity. If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, then we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer. There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.