Quotes about Fulfillment

Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape, Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by Percy Grice, dull but undeniably rich, on the bare chance that he might ultimately do her the honor of boring her for life?

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.

It was an observation they had made in her earliest youth—Undine never wanted anything long, but she wanted it "right off." And until she got it the house was uninhabitable.

Our goal is to love people more than need them. We are overflowing pitchers, not leaky cups.

But the point is that we live in a culture that idolizes happiness, and if we idolize happiness, it will always elude us.

When you have to manage the world, please everyone, earn more than you did last year, and work off five pounds, you will be driven. If not, you run the risk of being un-American or even un-Christian because our economy and churches rely on such people. Even when paralyzed by circumstances, a stressed person is a driven person.

They are God's liturgy, prepared for you in advance.

An achievement is bondage.It obliges one to a higher achievement.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.