Quotes about Fulfillment

But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.

I wish to live whatever life I have as fully and as sweetly as possible

We were like starving women who come to believe that food will cure all present pains, as well as heal all the deficiency sores of long standing.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.

I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.

There's nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work.

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

There was a great satisfaction to be found in the food which we need and obtain by our own hand.

He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky. These rocks, he thought, are waiting for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn; waiting for the shape my hands will give them.

and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.

Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.