Quotes About Satisfaction

When what you're doing isn't just a means to an end, you're in no hurry to get it done.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

reporter once asked Rockefeller how much is enough. His answer: Just a little bit more. And that's all we want: to eat and sleep, to stay dry and be loved, and acquire just a little bit more.

She runs the entire meal down the garbage disposal and goes hungry, a hunger more wonderful than any meal.

We're shaped to think the things we want will make us happy. But shaped to take only the briefest thrill in getting. Wanting is what having wants to recover.

Her citation for unlawful assembly costs Mimi $300. It's not a bad deal. She has paid twice as much for a winter coat that gave her half the satisfaction.

In the dark, she asks, What are you thinking? He's thinking that his life has reached its zenith, this very day. That he has lived to see everything he wants. Lived to see himself happy.

the sadness of completion.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now. This is a monumental change from the first half of life, so much so that it is almost the litmus test of whether you are in the second half of life at all.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now.

The reason we do anything one more time is because the last time did not really satisfy us deeply. As English poet W.H. Auden put it in "Apropos of Many Things": "We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.

A heaven you created by yourself will never be heaven for long.

It is strange that when people have so much, they are so anxious about not having enough—to do, to see, to own, to fix, to control, to change.

We are created with an inner drive and necessity that sends all of us looking for our True Self, whether we know it or not. This journey is a spiral and never a straight line. We are created with an inner restlessness and call that urges us on to the risks and promises of a second half to our life. There is a God-size hole in all of us, waiting to be filled. God creates the very dissatisfaction that only grace and finally divine love can satisfy.

Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you? Sully: Not often. Now and then.

La forma más rápida de engendrar un nuevo deseo es satisfacer uno antiguo.

Say I told you so. They're the four most satisfying words in the English language. You could rupture something trying to keep them inside you.

was that what people had thought of as the good big one now would become the shitty little one. Worse, the quickest way to beget a new desire, Bea knew, was to satisfy an old one, and each new desire had a way of becoming more expensive than the last. If she was foolish enough to gratify her customers' current demands, who knew what they'd dream up next?

We do not want what's good for us.

the quickest way to beget a new desire, Bea knew, was to satisfy an old one...

It was for this reason he'd always felt that owning things was overrated. All you were doing was alleviating the disappointment of not owning them.

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

When you're starved for this kind of contact, a little goes a long way.

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.