Quotes About Satisfaction

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation." —C. S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms6

Self-denial is an unfamiliar concept for many of us today, and we worry that it requires losing our individuality. But all self-denial means is realizing that we do not always have to have our own way, that our happiness does not depend on getting what we want.1

The unreasoned boast abounds that the good life is found in accumulation, that "more is better.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Damn, it feels great to hurt idiots.

Fuck me. I'm a rock star. And all I really wanted was a burrito.

Revenge is never what you think it's going to be. There's no pleasure and glory, and when it's done your grief remains. Once a man does the things you're talking about, he will never be the same, and he can never go back to who he was before. Worst of all, no matter how many enemies you kill, you are never satisfied. There is always one more who deserves it. When it becomes too easy to kill, it never ends.

Once you have adjusted to a higher standard of living, it may give you little or no extra happiness.

Não há oferta de excelência a menos que você goste do que está fazendo.

Not only is happiness not money, it is not even like money.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

We all need to appreciate ourselves for what we are and stop whining about what we are not. I grow weary of wishing so desperately for something else. Those concerns find no resolution. All I can do is do what I can do....

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

There is a lot of research to suggest that we feel better overall as we are progressing toward our goals; we have a sense of purposeful involvement, we give ourselves mental pats on the back for being so good and industrious, our self-esteem is enhanced, and our general life satisfaction is raised.

Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we had more time...If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower.

The hedonic treadmill says that no matter how much you have right now, you will want more, and when you get more, you will want more still—unless you're wise enough to save your money for some of the things that do lead to happiness.

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate," she said. "I just love chocolate. It's God's apology for broccoli.

All women like chocolate, it's like female catnip.

Never trade what you love for what's behind curtain B. Never.

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.