Quotes about Fulfillment
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
— Thomas a Kempis
O that we had spent but one day in this world thoroughly well!
— Thomas a Kempis
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
— Thomas a Kempis
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire. Thou canst not be satisfied with any temporal good, for thou wast not created for the enjoyment of these.
— Thomas a Kempis
Give up everything, and you will gain everything; let go of your desires, and you will find peace.
— Thomas a Kempis
It is vanity to wish for a long life and to care little about a well-spent life.
— Thomas a Kempis
If, then, the final happiness of man does not consist in those exterior advantages which are called goods of fortune, nor in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul in its sentient part, nor in the virtues of practical intellect, called art and prudence, it remains that the final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in the goods of the body, nor in the goods of the soul according to its sensitive part, nor as regards the intellective part according to the activity of the moral virtues, nor according to the intellectual virtues that are concerned with action, that is art and prudence — we are left with the conclusion that the ultimate felicity of man lies the contemplation of truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Happiness itself, being a perfection of the soul, is a good inherent in the soul: but that in which happiness consists, or the object that makes one happy, is something outside the soul.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Happiness consists in self-application to something higher.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
In this being may our treatise find its end and fulfillment.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want
— St. Thomas Aquinas