Quotes About Satisfaction

When she goes, he though. I'll have all I want. Not all I want but all there is

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.

We made love and then made love again and then after we had made love once more, quiet and dark and unspeaking and unthinking and then like a shower of meteors on a cold night, we went to sleep.

You find everything on earth at Harry's. Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness. I'll damn well find happiness, too, the Colonel assured him. Happiness, as you know, is a movable feast.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness was filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

They all wanted something that i did not want and i would get it without wanting it, if it worked.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO You'll be one. Everybody gets what they want. That's what they always tell me.

No pleasure in anything if you mouth it up too much.

The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley

By then I knew that everything good and bad left emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

He held them in his hand and looked at them as a man who was panning for gold, expecting only flakes, would look at four nuggets in his pan. The four bullets had black noses. Now the meat was out of them, the short twist rifling showed clearly. They were 9mm standard issue for the Schmeisser machine pistol. They made the man very happy. They picked up all the hulls, he thought. But they left these as plain as calling cards.

You have youth, confidence and a job. You have everything.

And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Labi b?tu, ja var?tu nopirkt k?du drusci?u laimes. Ja b?tu k?da vieta, kur to p?rdod.

While we may never find or receive the love from others that our hearts are desperate for, we can receive a love even greater than that of which we were deprived.

Si un día hemos de tener una conversación con Dios acerca de la medida de nuestras vidas, yo prefiero que Él me pregunte por qué intenté hacer demasiado, en lugar de que me pregunte por qué me conformé con tan poco.

In our consumer culture, we always want the next best thing: the latest, the newest, the youngest. Failing that, we at least want more: more intensity, more variety, more stimulation. We seek instant gratification and are increasingly intolerant of any frustration. Nowhere are we encouraged to be satisfied with what we have, to think, this is good. This is enough.

Oscar Wilde wrote, "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When

Now that these men and women and the generations who have followed can have as much sex as they want, they seem to have lost their desire for it.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When

The quality of the relationship is now synonymous with the quality of the experience. What good is a stable household, a good income, and well-behaved children if we are bored? We want our relationships to inspire us, to transform us. Their value, and therefore their longevity, is commensurate with how well they continue to satisfy our experiential thirst.

Getting what we want undermines the thrill of wanting it.

The era of pleasure has arrived.