Quotes About Satisfaction

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

the desire to wring out a few more drips of happiness almost always destroyed the happiness you were so lucky to have, and so foolish never to acknowledge.

Money can't buy you happiness, but happiness isn't everything.

There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.'" Jacob

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.

I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

Once upon a time there was a person whose life was so good there was no story to tell about it.

she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

It felt as if an only life should be better than good enough, but how many efforts for more have ended with having nothing?

La vergüenza es la sensación que nos invade cuando olvidamos casi por completo, pero no del todo, las expectativas sociales y nuestras obligaciones para con los otros, a cambio de nuestra satisfacción inmediata.

I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment

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

Menachem's problem was this: he had more money than there were things to buy. Menachem's solution was this: rather than buy more things, he would continue to buy the things he already owned

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty

Once upon a time there was a man whose life was so good there's no story to tell about it.

There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Persiguiendo la felicidad nos alejamos de la satisfacción

Reduce what you have. Decrease what you want.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.

La Naturaleza se satisface con muy poco y que la necesidad es madre de la invención.

nunca acreditávamos ter muito dinheiro e que, quanto mais tínhamos, mais queríamos ter;

it's not how much you work, but how working so much makes you feel that counts. And how I felt was iserable.