Quotes About Satisfaction

I went to a place like another planet where I felt good without wanting something.

We were copacetic.

After all, watching a child march successfully into the larger world is one of the greatest satisfactions parenthood has to offer.

Men were so grateful, she thought, when it came to sex.

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

Qué poco le pides a la vida. - Y ese tan poco aún no lo tengo.

Life has never given me what I wanted. But it has, once in a while, given me what I needed.

Perfection is only a standard set by the human mind as to what it desires.

A man cannot eat more than three meals a day, or live in more than one house at a time. If you have what you need, and more than you need, what is the use of adding to it?

Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded.

Learning to be content with what we have is a safeguard against the temptation to break the previous nine commands.

I was warm and dry and fed, the jonge Genever was happily chasing the red corpuscles in a game of merry-go-round, all the coloured threads were weaving themselves into a beautiful pattern and by day's end it would be over. I had never felt so good before. I was never to feel so good again.

But longing was part of life here, and it made him happy to feel his lack of these things, as sharp as hunger. He was addicted to want. He didn't know how this had happened, whether it was because of his childhood or some quirk of his personality or genes, but somehow he had become a person who needed to do without in order to appreciate what he had.

The side of modernity that is less interesting to Americans, which seeks less for political solutions than for understanding and satisfaction of man in his fullness or completeness, finds its profoundest statement in Nietzsche.

Happiness, for Rand, is not mere pleasure or desire-satisfaction. It is that state of "non-contradictory joy" (Atlas 1022) that is the concomitant of achieving what one has rationally identified as objectively good.

He felt poor, as well, although he didn't consider himself poor. He considered himself free.

Wouldn't that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say 'I never want to smoke again', then spend the rest of your life saying 'I'd love a cigarette.' That's what smokers who use the Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have.

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

Smokers do not smoke because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.

What you really enjoy in an alcoholic drink is not the drink itself, but the ending of the irritation of wanting that drink. Non-drinkers enjoy that all the time.

A man cannot eat more than three meals a day, or live in more than one house at a time. If you have what you need, and more than you need, what is the use of adding to it?" ~Saliman

Not unhappy is not the same thing as happy.