Quotes about Fulfillment

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

Because I have time to spare, and for the first time in my life nobody expects anything of me. I don't have to prove anything. I'm not rushing anywhere; each day is a gift I enjoy to the fullest.

At the age of twenty-two, suspecting their time was limited, Ichimei and she had gorged on love to enjoy it to the full, but the more they tried to exhaust it, the wilder their desire became, and whoever says that every flame must sooner or later be extinguished is wrong, because there are passions that blaze on until destiny destroys them with a swipe of its paw, and even then hot embers remain that need only a breath of oxygen to be rekindled.

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."

The End of every maker is himself.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?