Quotes About Satisfaction

I would have liked to stick my toes in the sand, or ride a tall horse. Today, I will go buy fifty pounds of cat food, and like it.

They lived, though simply, richly, if rich means a good cup of coffee.

Studies show that people who love their jobs, as well as husbands and wives who are happily married, feel appreciated for what they do and who they are.

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

He who stands in need of nothing cannot be bound by anything.

I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

Who really will be taking? And who will be giving? Whose pleasure will be ultimate? And does any of this really matter?

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

If you try to please everyone you'll please no one.

The feeling a writer gets when the last word is typed is almost as good as an orgasm.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

And of course, customers are notorious for being unable to articulate a need until they are shown how it can be met.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.

Mr. Wonka: "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Long story short, that person is a complainer, not a customer.

wanting and enjoyment are separate pathways in the brain, and the stronger wanting becomes, the weaker our enjoyment of life is.

I thought, There is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment. I could count the places I would not rather be. I've always wanted to see New Zealand, but I'd rather be here.

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.