Quotes about Fulfillment

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness

There is one end we all have — not in virtue of being rational, but simply in virtue of being human being — and that is happiness.

good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing.

Where there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them.

Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence.

Happiness extends just as far as study extends, and the more someone studies, the happier he is.

On the other hand, because fortune is needed as an addition, some hold good fortune to be identical with Happiness: which it is not, for even this in excess is a hindrance, and perhaps then has no right to be called good fortune since it is good only in so far as it contributes to Happiness.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.