Quotes About Satisfaction

I don't do a film with which I myself won't be happy. More than believing in the script, it should be fun shooting it.

Since many of us use food for emotional comfort, especially when we feel anxious or depressed or even just bored, this little exercise in slowing things down and paying careful attention to what we are doing illustrates how powerful, uncontrolled, and unhelpful many of our impulses are when it comes to food, and how simple and satisfying it can be and how much more in control we can feel when we bring awareness to what we are actually doing while we are doing it.

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

At such moments something resembling happiness actually stirs in your chest, but it isn't the sort of emotion you want to lean on very hard.

I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more richly and intensely.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

I wish I knew the flavor of my happiness.

Debemos optar por permanecer en el interior del paraíso del pasado el mayor tiempo posible o volver a nuestro anodino presente en el que, por lo general, las únicas cosas que anhelamos son el fin de semana, nuestro programa de televisión favorito, un sexo mediocre de vez en cuando, o ir a dormir por la noche?

Take It and Like It

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

To paraphrase Frank Zappa, she'd thought it was a man she wanted, but instead it was a muffin.

Her very difficulty created friction, and friction led to satisfaction...

There was, of course, nowhere better in the world to be than New York City. This fact was the foundation of her family's satisfaction with itself, the platform from which all else could be ridiculed, the collateral of adult sophistication that bought them the right to behave like children.

I guess I was just trying to say that the Internet is good at satisfying needs from a distance. Male or female.

Încep s? cred c? paradisul nu e o mulÈ›umire veÈ™nic?. Ci ma degrab? o stare de mulÈ›umire care face totul s? par? veÈ™nic. Nu exist? via?? veÈ™nic? pentru c? n-o s? câÈ™tigi niciodat? cursa cu timpul, totuÈ™i, dac? eÈ™ti mulÈ›umit, poÈ›i sc?pa de timp, pentru c? ajunge s? nu mai conteze.

He goes from one sensation to another — but no satisfaction.

The deader the ball, the better it suited her purpose, which was to whack the shit out of it until she was physically exhausted. She thought this was quite possibly the most satisfying thing she'd ever done.

he remembered how it would feel to be unmoved by the stores, unwanting of anything in them, and how much dimmer the lights

Ever since he'd discovered a secret passageway out of self-alienation, in the form of giving himself pleasure while also receiving it, he'd increasingly resented any activity that took him away from it.

Happiness, Buddha once said, is actually quite simple: The secret is to want what you have and not want what you don't have. Simple

Prince's music calmed me as much as masturbation or a cheeseburger.

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love