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The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.
halle berry— Terry Lawson (April 8, 2007) "Reporter, Temp, Online Seductress - Berry Revels In Film's Layered Role", Detroit Free Press, p. 1F.
The social, friendly, honest man,Whate'er he be,'Tis he fulfills great Nature's plan,And none but he!
Robert Burns— Second Epistle to J. Lapraik, st. 15 (1786).
Every living creature is happy when he fulfills his destiny, that is, when he realizes himself, when he is being that which in truth he is. For this reason, Schlegel, inverting the relationship between pleasure and destiny, said, “We have a genius for what we like.” Genius, man’s superlative gift for doing something, always carries a look of supreme pleasure.
josé ortega y gasset— pp. 16-17 (What is Philosophy? (1964))
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.
Lionel Trilling— Introduction
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
— Winston Churchill, in Live Life from the Heart 14 November 2011), p.79
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, "per aspera ad astra, over steep ways to the stars.
— Bishop W. C. Doane, p. 588. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The state protects Islam ; it implements its Shari'ah; it orders people to do right and shun evil; it fulfills the duty regarding God's call.
— Article 23 [Islam], [1]. to do right and shun evil is a variant of w:Enjoin what is good and forbid what is wrong[Quran 9:71 (Shakir)]. The wording is different due to translation.
Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act IV, scene 3, line 364.
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society , and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence , amenity, and tolerance ; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.
— Lionel Trilling, in his "Introduction" to The Portable Matthew Arnold (1949)
The most pious of people is the one who fulfills his religious precepts, and the most devout of the people is the one who avoids illegitimate acts.
— Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.519
