Quotes about Fulfillment

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.

If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there.

Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.