Quotes About Self-satisfaction

Nothing can give you happiness except you and yourself.

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.

Vegans are always wrong, but damn pleased with themselves

But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

Society and conversation, therefore, are the most powerful remedies for restoring the mind to its tranquillity, if, at any time, it has unfortunately lost it; as well as the best preservatives of that equal and happy temper, which is so necessary to self-satisfaction and enjoyment.

at least to resist the approach of Alfred Humblot at Ollendorf and Jacques Madeleine at Fasquelle, which Proust defined as, 'the self-satisfaction felt by busy men - however idiotic their business - at not having time to do what you are doing'.

Todo hombre de buena voluntad debe intentar, valerosamente, en su medida y en su ambienta, llevar esta doctrina del hombre perfecto a la práctica. Si lo consigue sin que lo repudien o prohíban sus contemporáneos, tiene derecho a sentirse satisfecho de sí mismo y de su sociedad.

In other words, (cultural) exchange is about teasing out points of conflict, among other things. (Cultural) Appropriation suggests a significant amount of self-satisfaction and a desire to show off.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Success means using your knowledge and experience to satisfy yourself. Significance means using your knowledge and experience to change the lives of others.

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.

Saw in her mind's eye that delicious moment when Stan—a version of the piano player himself, when you thought about it—smiled the sweet self-satisfied smile that always preceded the double take, the panic, the inevitable disaster. (Down, down, down the keyboard he went and down, down, down in her mind's eye went the poor piano.) Images that stayed with her even as John woke and

The Shubert grandparents. No comfort there. He in uniform, she in a ball gown, displaying absurd self-satisfaction. They had got what they wanted, Sophia supposed, and had only contempt for those not so conniving or so lucky.

Whether the origin of 'A Course In Miracles' is diabolical or merely psychological, the book proclaimed an anti-gospel of unreality and bred a cult of self-satisfaction for which Marianne Williamson has served as chief apostle.

Cât de tentant este s? ridic?m ziduri înalte È™i s? împiedic?m p?trunderea oric?rei schimb?ri. S? putrezim aici, în confortul mulÈ›umirii de sine.

You won't escape me. I like you more and more. You're a lucky catch. I congratulate myself.

Obviously, when I play well and win a trophy, I feel happy about myself.

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

And, I had to admit it - I was pretty proud of myself.

smugness is half the fun of being a liberal (the other half being the tearing down of everything one's ancestors, and one's betters generally, worked so hard to build).