Quotes About Satisfaction

The glare of that much-mentioned brilliance, love, Broke out, to show Its bright incipience sailing above, Still promising to solve, and satisfy, And set unchangeably in order. So To pile them back, to cry, Was hard, without lamely admitting how It had not done so then, and could not now. - Love Songs In Age

And again that strange half-memory brushed mothlike against the Stalker's mind, the Once-born called Tom kneeling over it in snow and saying, "Miss Fang! It's not fair! He waited until you were dazzled!" For a moment it felt an odd satisfaction, as though it had returned a favor.

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

As human beings, we are naturally driven by goals beyond physical satisfaction or mental supremacy to seek a deeper level of meaning and fulfilment.

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Always we desire too much or not enough and we compensate accordingly.

There is no burnt rice to a hungry person.

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is a child of God.

The Lord is my shepherd and nothing is wanting to me. In green pastures He hath settled me.

Life is rich it's full of gifts-the more you have the more there is to share. You know its men with small souls who think there isn't enough to go around. They fight to keep their little grasp on their tiny piece of the world and they're always angry because they're never satisfied. They're cursed with a hole they can never fill. They may get things done but they can never keep what they've achieved.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

a man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing.

Io ho sempre voluto tutto Thomas. E mi sono sempre dovuto accontentare di qualcosa.

Provò una gioia dolcissima perché gli sembrò che quelle prime parole che aveva scritto avessero il sapore del pane e il profumo di un buon rossetto.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

Ambition displeases when it has been sated... Having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

L'amour ne me disait plus rien du tout, mais rien du tout. L'amour pas plus que le vin, seul le tabac demeurait la saveur nécessaire de la vie ; Dieu merci, j'en étais bien pourvu.

Ho sognato due o tre cose alla volta, non ho mai desiderato nulla

Never had a hit movie or hit TV show or hit record. I just had visions of doing the best quality of music. Now there is a place for me because Frank Sinatra is dead. They want me to play the music. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be noticed. The only satisfaction is that I do what I do well. That's the only lawful satisfaction.

When I traveled around the country visiting women in their own homes and talking to them about their closets, every woman lamented about 'settling' for many of the pieces in her closet.