Quotes About Satisfaction

Being engaged in a pursuit that truly challenges you is the surest route to personal satisfaction.

Many human beings spend their finest hours in a facade of satisfaction. By this I mean they think and say they are happy, but in reality they are miserable. They rationalize the fact they have betrayed their dreams, neglected their human treasures and minimized the impact they could have on the planet by telling themselves to be satisfied with what they have, instead of evolving into more.

From Dharma springs inner harmony and lasting satisfaction. Dharma is based upon the ancient principle that says every one of us has a heroic mission while we walk this Earth. We have all been granted a unique set of gifts and talents that will readily allow us to realize this lifework. The key is to discover them, and in doing so, discover the main objective of your life.

La vida no siempre te da lo que pides, pero sí te da lo que necesitas.

Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves -- that we are nice.

There must be something deep within our memory as a species that is pleased by being able to look at what is making us warm.

As the man says in the play, for this relief, much thanks.

The will to possess must cease--but also the *non* will to possess must not be seen.

My greatest skill has been to want little. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN A

I have always wished, simply as a matter of satisfaction to myself, that my salary might represent the real value of my services in the office, while as it is and has been in the past it represents rather your generosity.

He never seemed to take great pleasure in his accomplishments, and for the rest of his life, he craved a restful but elusive peace.

They say there's peace if you can relinquish desire. For me desire's absence has only ever left a dull persistent ache.

I've got everything I need. That's the definition of affluence.

pity the man who gets what he wants. And it's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

The whole point of drifting was happy passive acceptance of no alternatives. Having alternatives ruined it.

Her eyes were green, and they were warm and liquid with some kind of deep, dreamy satisfaction. There was sparkle, muted, like winking sunlight on a woodland stream. And bitter amusement. She was mocking him, and herself, and the whole wide world.

We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I'm always happy," he said. "Always was, always will be.

He had foam on his lip, from a long hard pull on a long-neck bottle.

made it a perfect

Why don't you live anywhere?" "Do you have a house?" "Of course." "Is it a pure unalloyed pleasure?" "Not entirely." "So there's your answer.

foam on his lip, from a long hard pull on a long-neck bottle. Maybe

Sex with a woman who wants to please a man is nothing compared to sex with a woman who wants to please herself.

It is merely that there is only so much people can do to be happy, no matter what they think they should do.