Fulfillment Quotes

Who has not found the Heaven – below –
Will fail of it above –

The happiness of one man and woman is the greatest thing in all the world.

We work to attain an object, and the object gained, we find that what we miss is the daily toil.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is an equivalent something outside us.

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but all the same, one would not be without that experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived…[to Elinor]

Success – true success is not always measured in terms of money.

Poverty of goods is easy to cure, poverty of soul impossible.[La pauvreté de biens est aisée à guérir, la pauvreté de l’âme impossible.]

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Many people know what they want to have, but have no idea of who they want to be. Getting ‘things’ simply will not fulfill you. Only living and doing what you believe is ‘the right thing’ will give you that sense of inner strength that we all deserve.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

It appears to me, that happiness consists in the possession of a destiny which corresponds perfectly with our moral faculties. Our desires are fugitive and often fatal to our repose. But our faculties are as permanent as their necessities are unappeasable.[Alternate translation:]I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.[Il me semble que le bonheur consiste dans la possession d’une destinée en rapport avec nos facultés. Nos désirs sont une chose momentanée et souvent funeste même à nous, mais nos facultés sont permanentes et leurs besoins ne cessent jamais.]