Lasting Fulfillment Quotes

Test cricket gives ultimate satisfaction that I don't think any other type of cricket does due to the nature and longevity of it.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

Success for me is going beyond money and power, and measuring success based on a third metric - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder and to give back. Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over. Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable.

Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

It's better to enjoy life - selection is a temporary thing.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.

Sure, I can afford a nice car and a nice place, but this is not what brings me happiness. Now you're on a high, and people know you and things like that, but how many people will remember your name once it all stops and the money isn't raining from the sky?

Too often we concentrate only on the things we can see now; but our focus should be on that place we can only envision, but will enjoy for all eternity.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

It is not possible to sin enough to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enough to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or pamper ourselves enough to be happy. It is not possible to hide enough or run far enough away from trials and troubles to be happy. Happiness and joy come only when we are living up to who we are... I have never met anyone who was happier because he was immoral, or because he was addicted to something, or because he was dishonest and compromised his integrity.

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That's great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness.

Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.

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.