Quotes About Satisfaction

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

I'm happy with the person I become.

Y lo mismo que yo, alzando la cara entre dos restas, entre dos párrafos, miraba aquella plétora por los cristales de la ventana, detrás de la lluvia que sólo cubre el mundo para que podamos ver en su lugar nuestros sueños, la saciedad de nuestros sueños detrás de esa cortina gris donde todo está permitido.

THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY There's a rule for proper doses in the dinner-eaters lore: one should stop the filling process while one still has room for more. And if someone at the table had reminded me before - Hallelujah! I'd be able to absorb a little more.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Un poco de buena compañía, un poco de comprensión, inclusive un poco de amor es todo cuanto necesitan, y suelen agradecerlo. Un poco de todo nada más, por supuesto, porque su soledad es insaciable

When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed--as actually contemplated, as within one.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

For dealing with blessings which come to us from outside we need a firm foundation based on reason and education; without this foundation, people keep on seeking these blessings and heaping them up but can never satisfy the insatiable appetites of their souls.

We'd rather have satisfaction and the maximum titillation than real information, and so history, I insist to my good friend Steve Welch, isn't a cold sequential list of facts, it's a prize anthology of the best fiction.

He is rich enough that wants nothing.

When people get what they want, they haven't a clue what to do with it.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Whatever our desires may be, getting the object of our desire is not the same thing as contentment, which comes from within. In the end, we'll never find complete contentment, a perfect sense of peace, if our mind isn't content and at peace.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Being happiness doesn't a mean you got every things but it means you find a way to achieve your desire things.

Bagaimanapun baik yang telah kalian peroleh dari kehidupan ini, masih ada saja yang kalian rasa kurang. Yang berada dalam kekurangan ingin terbebas dari kekurangan itu, ingin mendapatkan kemakmuran yang melimpah. Yang telah berada dalam kecukupan ingin lebih cukup lagi. Dari perasaan kurang itu, dari keinginan mendapatkan yang lebih baik itu, timbullah impian. Dan impian itu bisa menjadi padat, menjadi cita-cita. Dan cita-cita itu menjadi pola yang menjadi dasar dan petunjuk dari perbuatan.

What does that mean, 'to be content'? One could argue, 'to have everything'. But can you have everything? Or do you already have everything, but don't know it? The most precious thing in your life happens to be right under your nose, and you're not aware of it. What is it? The coming and going of this breath.

If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.

ex. It felt good. James glanced across

Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.