Quotes About Satisfaction

Selfishness is not identical with self-love but with its very opposite. Selfishness is one kind of greediness. Like all greediness, it contains an insatiability, as a consequence of which there is never any real satisfaction. Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Man seeks for drama and excitement; when he cannot get satisfaction on a higher level, he creates for himself the drama of destruction.

The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Let me enjoy my fan-wanking. Your what? Let me arrange the story to meet my own personal needs.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

Achievement, n. the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

once a man has tasted strong drink, he finds wine insipid

Better is poverty in the hand of the god,Than wealth in the storehouse;Better is bread with a happy heartThan wealth with vexation.

A contented mind is a continual feast.

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.

La riqueza no se mide por las cosas que se poseen sino por aquellas de las que sabemos prescindir.

My greed goes no further than having something to drink, clothing on my back and shelter for the night.

You know, a lot of people nowadays believe they're owed a happy ending.

Beauty is the feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

Consider how few persons you shall meet who are as sweet & sane as nature is. One quaffs health, courage, genius, and sanctity from that cup, and is never satiated with it.

There is no chance for other matter in the stomach of a hungry person.

We finished off a small pie and when we got home I washed the tomato sauce out of her hair, which I had expected, but also out of her underwear, which I think must be the sign that you have really, really enjoyed your lunch.

he felt about a meal in a restaurant the way people feel about money and good health: always better to have it.

Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.

Maybe we make too much of a big deal about being happy. Maybe we should all just find a way to be content with life, you know? Because that's not a bad place to be. Content.

Sometimes the small dreams were all a person needed to live.

If it feels good, enjoy it. If it doesn't, adjust your position until it does.

Don't worry about being good enough, Patrick. Just worry about being happy. Whoever makes you happy, that's who's good enough for you.