Quotes About Satisfaction

The more you want, the more you stand to lose

Much wants more and loses all.

convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.

Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.

The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined. The

Be content with your lot.

Bite in! I said. The sound of crackling. Eliza giggled in the back. Her parents did not allow her to eat Doritos. I was her drug dealer, in this way. See? I said. What does it taste like? A Dorito, said a smartass in the front row. Cheese, said someone else. Really? I said. They concentrated on their chips. That good dust stuff, said someone else. Exactly, I said. That good dust stuff.

La anciana descubrió que le gustaba. Le agradaba la sensación de asesinar. Se le ocurrió que matar podría ser un mal universalmente satisfactorio.

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.

Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little.

Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.