Quotes About Satisfaction

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.

She looked at Bernard with an expression of rapture, but of rapture in which there was no trace of agitation or excitement—for to be excited is still to be unsatisfied. Hers was the calm ecstasy of achieved consummation, the peace, not of mere vacant satiety and nothingness, but of balanced life, of energies at rest and in equilibrium. A rich and living peace.

Ustedes piensan primero en obtener la producción más grande posible en el menor tiempo posible. Nosotros pensamos primero en los seres humanos y en sus satisfacciones. El cambio de trabajo no es lo mejor para obtener una gran producción en pocos días. Pero a la mayoría de la gente le gusta más que hacer un solo trabajo toda la vida. Si se trata de elegir entre la eficiencia mecánica y la satisfacción humana, elegimos la satisfacción.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

He can go about his business, so completely satisfied to see and be part of the divine Order of Things that he will never even be tempted. When all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness, for drearier forms of pleasure?

Éste es el secreto de la felicidad: amar lo que uno tiene que hacer.[...] lograr que la gente ame su inevitable destino social.

In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure.

An hour later, with ten more miles and the visit to the World's Biggest Drug Store safely behind us, we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as being in one's right mind.

Money brings no satisfaction if one has to work for it; for if one works for it one has no time to spend it.

Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory. In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good.

El éxito se le subió a Bernard a la cabeza y le reconcilió casi completamente (como lo hubiese conseguido cualquier otro intoxicante) con un mundo que, hasta entonces, había juzgado poco satisfactorio. Desde el momento en que le reconocía a él como un ser importante, el orden de cosas era bueno.

They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

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

El mundo es estable ahora. Las gentes son felices; tienen cuanto desean, y no desean nunca lo que no pueden tener.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

Analizando su vida doméstica, Biran sentía que había hecho muy bien en casarse con una amable y simple mujer, capaz de ser feliz a mi lado sin reclamarme nada, y para quien soy siempre lo suficientemente bueno como para no hacer esfuerzo alguno en modificarme.

La felicidad nunca tiene grandeza.

La felicidad real siempre aparece escuálida por comparación con las compensaciones que ofrece la desdicha. Y, naturalmente, la estabilidad no es, ni con mucho, tan espectacular como la inestabilidad. Y estar satisfecho de todo no posee el hechizo de una buena lucha contra la desventura, ni el pintoresquismo del combate contra la tentación o contra una pasión fatal o una duda. La felicidad nunca tiene grandeza.

Happiness is never grand.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.

In itself, no doubt, the natural and moderate satisfaction of the sexual instinct is a matter quite indifferent to morality. It is only in relation to something else that the satisfaction of a natural instinct can be said to be good or bad.

Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory.