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Quotes About Satisfaction

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
~ Alexander Pushkin
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
~ Eric Hoffer
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
~ Epicurus
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.
~ James Buchanan
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
~ John Stuart Mill
Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
~ Socrates
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
~ William Ralph Inge
Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
~ Amy Lowell
The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
~ F.H. Bradley
What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present
~ Alan Watts
Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
~ Pablo Picasso
Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct - a byproduct of achievement.
~ Ray Kroc
Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.
~ Robinson Jeffers
The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.
~ Michael Neill
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
~ Confucius
The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.
~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
~ Mark Twain
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
~ Dr. Benjamin Spock
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
~ Leo Rosten
Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
~ Eugene O'Neill