Quotes About Satisfaction

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.

Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough.

There are two ways to make a man richer, reasoned Rousseau: give him more money or curb his desires.

We aren't overwhelmed by anger whenever we are frustrated; only when we first believed ourselves entitled to a particular satisfaction and then did not receive it.

What we find beautiful and what we see as attractive are indicators of what we crave in order to become properly 'whole'.

He knows that perfect happiness comes in tiny, incremental units only, perhaps no more than five minutes at a time. This is what one has to take with both hands and cherish.

If prostitutes ... attract us so little, it is not because they are less beautiful than other women, but because they are ready and waiting; because they already offer us precisely what we seek to attain.

Our designs go wrong because our feelings of contentment are woven from fine and unexpected filaments.

We may be happy with little when we have come to expect little. And we may be miserable with much when we have been taught to expect everything.

even if the whole of the man-made world could, through relentless effort and sacrifice, be modelled to rival St Mark's Square, even if we could spend the rest of our lives in the Villa Rotonda or the Glass House, we would still often be in a bad mood. 7.

Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

We cease to appreciate things when we believe that life should be perfect and we can eradicate all known problems.

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will guarantee us an enduring satisfaction. We are led to imagine ourselves scaling the steep sides of the cliff face of happiness to reach a wide, high plateau on which to continue our lives; we are not reminded that soon after reaching the summit we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we seek something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources.

we cannot help but ask what comes of all of this Ã¢â'¬Â¦ there is nothing to show but the satisfaction of hunger and sexual passion, and Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a little momentary gratification Ã¢â'¬Â¦ now and then, between Ã¢â'¬Â¦ endless needs and exertions.

The happiness which may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception, it reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

In any case, unless we learn how to appreciate what we have, there is no point striving for more.

When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.

There is nothing missing.

Completion is an attitude, not an event.

You were born to enjoy your life, not repair it.

After a certain point you quit trying to prove yourself to anyone and you simply live in the way that makes you happy.

Contentment is not achieved by having stuff. It is achieved by enjoying the stuff you have.

What do you think is there that you cannot find here?