Quotes about Fulfillment

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

I am happy in my prison of passion

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

There ain't but one life worth livin and I was born to it.

And that would be my life. And I would be happy.

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful books, and be rich with them; she wanted to see beautiful things, and have the joy of them for ever; she wanted to know big, free people; and there remained always the want she could put no name to? It was so difficult. There were so many things, so much to meet and surpass. And one never knew where one was going.

It all had to be squeezed and squeezed again, to provide a thrill, to provide enjoyment. What did people mean, with their simply determined enjoying of themselves?

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.