Quotes About Satisfaction

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

He took an unassuming pleasure in his possessions, and the likely prospect of becoming truly wealthy left him completely indifferent. He was, besides, one of those men who like to witness their own life, considering any ambition to live it inappropriate. It should be noted that these men observe their fate the way most men are accustomed to observe a rainy day.

Pero no sucedió nada, porque a la vida siempre le falta alguna cosa para ser perfecta

Il resto del suo tempo lo consumava in una liturgia di abitudini che riuscivano a difenderlo dall'infelicità.

He was, besides, one of those men who like to witness their own life, considering any ambition to live it inappropriate

El resto de su tiempo lo consumía en una liturgia de costumbres que conseguía preservarle de la infelicidad.

Però non accadde nulla, perché alla vita manca sempre qualcosa per essere perfetta.

Vita è un bicchiere da bere fino in fondo.

This amused him much more than making piles of money. Teaching. He was a man made like that.

A man is always in a hurry when he wants to be happy.

A man gets an appetite when he starts to eat.

She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted for infinitely more than a vigorously healthy balance sheet. In fact, she thought, annual accounts should include an item specifically headed Happiness, alongside expenses and receipts and the like.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

The danger, of course, is that we spend time imagining that we would be happier elsewhere, and forget to cultivate happiness where fate has placed us.

I told him that if a man is born in a dry place, then although he may dream of rain, he does not want too much, and that he will not mind the sun that beats down and down.

I am just saying that we have to have some things that we like, otherwise we shall be very unhappy. And if you are very unhappy you can die – we all know that.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?

And food made with love, she thought, tasted better-everybody knew that. It just did.

You have each other, thought Isabel.But was that enough? Even when one was in love, it was not really enough just to have the other person - not if one needed stimulation. The company of just one person could be reassuring, could stave off loneliness, but would it be enough for three months?

There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Class reunions were about curiosity; about satisfaction at the avoidance of the mistakes of one's contemporaries, now revealed in their emerging life histories; about reflecting on the ravages—and injustices—of time; and of realizing, perhaps, how strange and random are the twists and turns of fate.

Ulf nodded. "Many of us have to settle for something," he said. "And then we find the thing we've settled for is as good as the thing we wanted to do in the first place.

the truth sometimes seemed too thin to satisfy our yearnings.