Quotes About Satisfaction

You don't pursue happiness. You pursue everything you need to have a fulfilled life, and then, if you achieve it, you'll be happy some of the time. The rest of the time, you'll be consent. One can't sustain happiness forever.

I was never getting my old life back, and i didn't care. I was happy

Everyone needs things that serve no greater purpose than to make them happy.

You don't pursue happiness. You pursue everything you need to have a fulfilled life, and then, if you achieve it, you'll be happy some of the time. The rest of the time, you'll be content. One can't sustain happiness forever.

Too much of anything reduces the overall effect of happiness and satisfaction.

Don't dwell on what isn't here. Dwell on what is. A perfumed breeze, hot tea, rich biscuits, a warm blanket, a purring kitten. And me. That last is the hardest. Focus on being in the moment with myself, comfortable in my own company.

This was what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.

She'll take what she can get and be happy about it, because love isn't about convenience and frozen yogurt and real life. That isn't what love is about.

He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar.

He did not look down at his book. He was happy with his thoughts. They were often enough for him, nowadays. His mind was like a house he had spent his life furnishing.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

We] were just leaning back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing--half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it. I

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think, And everything you do, Is for your self, And there isn't one.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

You may be able to conquer the whole world and gain everything in action, But you'll live in torment if you can't find peace of mind and satisfaction.

If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.

Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.