Quotes about Fulfillment

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

He has enough who is contented with little.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.

This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."