Quotes About Satisfaction

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect.

Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

In one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.

I don't smoke often, maybe once or twice a month, but it makes me feel sexy and romantic.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

It's funny how, no matter what we have in life, we're never satisfied.

You can't make everybody happy, so you make those happy who mean the most to you.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

Isn't it clear that bliss and envy are the numerator and the denominator of the fraction known as happiness?

I'm so happy- so happy...I'm full- you understand: to the brim. And so- I walk about and hear nothing of what's around mem because I'm always listening within, inside myself...

Wings are needed in order to fly, but we don't need to fly anywhere. We have arrived at the terminus. We have found what we wanted.

What is it that people beg for, dream about, torment themselves for, from the time they leave swaddling clothes? They want someone to tell them, once and for all, what happiness is—and then to bind them to that happiness with a chain.

I ask you: what did people—from their very infancy—pray for, dream about, long for? They longed for some one to tell them, once and for all, the meaning of happiness, and then to bind them to it with a chain.

Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming yesterday.

Lucky she was, she would reply, with no children to break her back, no husband to break her heart.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

For every beautiful thing, you have to pass through a valley of hardship. There is no liberation without labor. There is no freedom which is free. To create in you the power to create the intelligence which will give you power to be effective in your own living and give you satisfaction in your own joy, you have to work for it, you have to earn it. E

It yields solid satisfaction to hear men testify of the truth of the Gospel. It is always peculiarly interesting to me to hear the Saints tell their experience. It is to me one of the best sermons to hear men and women relate to each other how the Lord has wrought upon their understanding, and brought them into the path of truth, life, and salvation.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair