Quotes About Satisfaction

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.