Quotes About Satisfaction

I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.

We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?

I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.

I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos.

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.

Si un travail prenant et rémunérateur, une amitié intéressante et peu exigeante, et une demeure confortable sont les meilleures bases du bonheur, alors les mois suivants furent sans doute les plus agréables que j'eusse connus.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

I do not believe there is a way in which this deeply entrenched evil can be quickly healed. But until this goal is reached there is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Un uomo felice è troppo soddisfatto del presente per pensare molto al futuro

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

The more one gets the more one wants

Pero parece que cuanto más se recibe más se quiere...

And that, put in the Director sententiously, that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.