Quotes about Fulfillment

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.

The soul is awakened through service.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?