Quotes About Satisfaction

Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers.

En una encuesta tras otra, los costarricenses informan de niveles mucho más elevados de satisfacción vital que los singapurenses.

We tend to believe that if we could just change our workplace, get married, finish writing that novel, buy a new car or repay the mortgage, we would be on top of the world. Yet when we get what we desire we don't seem to be any happier. Buying cars and writing novels do not change our biochemistry. They can startle it for a fleeting moment, but it is soon back to its set point.

Eating ice cream is enjoyable; finding true love is more enjoyable; do you think that if you just eat enough ice cream, the accumulated pleasure could ever equal the rapture of true love?

desde el punto de vista del rebaño, y no del pastor, es difícil evitar la impresión de que para la inmensa mayoría de los animales domésticos la revolución agrícola fue una catástrofe terrible. Su «éxito» evolutivo carece de importancia. Un rinoceronte salvaje que se halle al borde de la extinción está probablemente más satisfecho que un ternero que pasa su corta vida dentro de una caja minúscula, y que es engordado para producir jugosos bistecs.

Repeated studies have found that there is a very close correlation between good marriages and high subjective well-being, and between bad marriages and misery.

People pursue wealth and power, acquire knowledge and possessions, beget sons and daughters, and build houses and palaces. Yet no matter what they achieve, they are never content.

We don't become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon. Dramatic improvements in conditions, as humankind has experienced in recent decades, translate into greater expectations rather than greater contentment.

If this is so, then our entire understanding of the history of happiness might be misguided. Maybe it isn't so important whether people's expectations are fulfilled and whether they enjoy pleasant feelings. The main question is whether people know the truth about themselves.

We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all that power. Worse still, humans seem to be more irresponsible than ever. Self-made gods with only the laws of physics to keep us company, we are accountable to no one. We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and on the surrounding ecosystem, seeking little more than our own comfort and amusement, yet never finding satisfaction.

being satisfied with what you already have is far more important than getting more of what you want.

Yet even when we experience pleasant things we are never content. We either fear that the pleasure might disappear, or we hope that it will instensify

Comer helado es agradable. Encontrar el amor verdadero es más agradable. ¿Cree el lector que si comemos suficiente helado, el placer acumulado podría llegar a equipararse con el embeleso del amor verdadero?

Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology ('Just do it') to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas frugality is self-oppression. It has succeeded. We

Buda enseñó que las tres realidades básicas del universo son que todo cambia sin cesar, que nada tiene ninguna esencia perdurable y que nada es completamente satisfactorio.

Work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis.

happiness is nothing other than the enjoyment of the highest good,

It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

Hating the haters, the morally repulsive, the fascists of the world, is indeed an endless source of libidinal satisfaction for "woke" liberals. But what changes does it actually produce?

As our elders teach us how to find more inner satisfaction, we'll decrease our reliance on consumerism and live in greater harmony with the Earth and its resources.

Nothing is good enough; we must know and have it all."

She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.

Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world?

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing -- and you will have it all!