Quotes About Satisfaction

I would have appreciated the satisfaction of a carnal paroxysm—in my experience, they bring a sparkle to the eye as well as brightness to the complexion and a spring to the step—but using Stoker to achieve that end was a means I could not begin to contemplate.

He smelled of leather and wool and tasted of apples and I could have died in that moment and counted myself happy.

I would earnestly warn you against trying to find out the reason for and explanation of everything . . . To try and find out the reason for everything is very dangerous and leads to nothing but disappointment and dissatisfaction, unsettling your mind and in the end making you miserable. —QUEEN VICTORIA TO HER GRANDDAUGHTER, PRINCESS VICTORIA OF HESSE, 22 AUGUST 1883

This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Whipped cream can remind you why it's good to be alive.

This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, even 80 percent. A relationship—it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't be embarrassing or uncomfortable or downright ugly. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of a guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It should be perfect for you. It should be lasting.

And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?

And maybe that's the closest definition for the word we can get, a life equation: An absence of wanting equals happiness.

Right there— the hope of bacon is a reason to love life.

Screw chocolate. A good steak is where it's at.

The eye of a man is never satisfied with what it sees.

I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two.

Live Life Fully & Abundantly

Life has no joy in it without accomplishment of purpose

My soul is satisfied with spirituality.

Strange satisfaction of organizing pencil crayons and sharpening them (the way I used to enjoy sharpening wax crayons as a kid

The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy.

The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.

Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!