Quotes about Fulfillment

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

The promise was void, like so many other sweet, illusory promises of our childhood; void as promises made in Eden before the seasons were divided, and when the starry blossoms grew side by side with the ripening peach,—impossible to be fulfilled when the golden gates had been passed.

I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content.

He loved also to think, I did it! And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own.

I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.

Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain.

How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all. —SIR

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self — never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted. Becoming

we mortals have our divine moments, when love is satisfied in the completeness of the beloved object

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

It's all I've got to think of now—to do my work well and make the world a bit better place for them as can enjoy it.

Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.