- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fulfilment Quotes
Different roads to the same sense of fulfilment.
These quotes trace fulfilment across very different settings - older writing on marital duty, and a filmmaker reconsidering happy, wish-fulfilment endings as more than just a cop-out.
- Last Updated on Jul 31, 2026
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the wedded pair have given each other power over their bodies, it would be a grave sin for one to refuse either altogether or for a considerable time the fulfilment of the marriage debt.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green house... It's still consumption. What matters in this world is the fulfilment of people's needs and the fulfilment of their aspirations.
- Pay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
India has a very young population which is comfortable doing business on a screen than do it one on one with a banking executive. They want quick fulfilment of desires, and may not have the time to go to a bank to get things done. Many of them are comfortable working from home.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is increasing recognition that violence against women is a major barrier to the fulfilment of human rights and a direct challenge to women's inclusion and participation in sustainable development and sustaining peace.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020