Quotes about Fulfillment
If you want to be happy, be!
— Henry David Thoreau
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
— Henry David Thoreau
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
— Henry David Thoreau
If I should sell my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.
— Henry David Thoreau
for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly;
— Henry David Thoreau
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Nothing can be more useful to a man than the determination not to be hurried.
— Henry David Thoreau
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
— Henry David Thoreau
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
— Henry David Thoreau
I was describing the other day my success in solitary and distant woodland walking outside the town. I do not go there to get my dinner, but to get that sustenance which dinners only preserve me to enjoy, without which dinners are a vain repetition.
— Henry David Thoreau
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. Let us improve our opportunities, then, before the evil days come.
— Henry David Thoreau