Quotes About Satisfaction

I like heroin, cocaine, nice houses. good furniture, and pretty girls,' said Alexander, 'and I've had all of them in large quantities. 'But you know, they never made me happy.' 'My word, you're hard to please, aren't you?

the two men left the building with a sense of achievement, counterbalanced by desire.

Great wine works wonders and is itself one

last year, says Guido. A bit less sugar and slightly higher total acidity. That's just what he wanted. Still, he tries to find a few nits to pick.

Beneath our questions about God's generosity and his care for our needs is something darker. What we really care about is our wants.

But the point is that we live in a culture that idolizes happiness, and if we idolize happiness, it will always elude us.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

On the other hand, although perhaps more rarely, happiness comes without any ego satisfaction. Monks, hermits, anchorites sometimes find this kind of happiness, but so do men and women who are simply content with what they have regardless of whether it is much or little. Ego satisfaction is a clear reflection of self, or as clear as the muddy water of experience will allow.

Darius Madden had more money than he needed and almost as much money as he wanted.

Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory.

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

Ni la perfección ni la madurez están entre mis metas.

Pero así es el mundo, inversamente proporcional a las necesidades y deseos de uno.

En aquellos días descubrí por qué hay tantas solteronas resolviendo misterios: es lo más entretenido cuando no follas.

Viajar es en realidad tan simple como vivir. Si en cualquier momento de nuestra existencia nos detenemos a mirar hacia atrás y hacer un balance - un balance en verdad honesto -, la mayor parte de las veces no deberíamos sentirnos satisfechos de lo que esa vida nos ha deparado; pero si nos limitamos a aceptar lo que nuestra memoria quiere ofrecernos, entonces merece la pena seguir adelante.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.