Quotes About Satisfaction

we may be less satisfied with the physical attractiveness of our own lovers because of the way the popular media bombard us with examples of unrealistically attractive models.

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.

It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.

When a person has fallen in love with God, both his ethical commitments and aesthetical pleasures become focused and satisfying. But when the religious is lost, ethics devolves into, first, a fussy legalism, and then is swallowed up completely by the lust for personal satisfaction.

The first hour of accomplished love is perhaps the only passage in a man's life with which he is perfectly satisfied. It is the only reality that does not disappoint the dream of expectation. There is no region of speculation beyond it--its horizon bounds the world.

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad scramble to have everything else.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast?

What I aspired to be,And was not, comforts me.

She hadA heart—how shall I say?—too soon made glad.

Trying to get our emotional needs met through sex does not work.

I wasna fou, but just had plenty.

Contented wi' little and cantie wi' mair.

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both. Other sins last but for awhile; the gut may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy never ceaseth.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

The ugly wrangle over the testament must have dimmed the satisfaction that Stalin derived from his political triumph at this time over the united opposition.

One of the problems with anecdotes is that they tend to be provided by the satisfied customers, not the unsatisfied or dead ones.

Carol's life had been so incomplete: a verb without an object

The gods of power frown on the frivolous; they give ultimate satisfaction only to those who study and reflect, and punish those who skim the surfaces looking for a good time.