Quotes About Satisfaction

And then in a jiffy he was under the high ceiling of his great front room. This was entirely satisfactory. Here, after all, life began. Here he slept, breakfasted, read and entertained.

It seemed a tragedy to want nothing – and yet he wanted something, something. He knew in flashed what is was – some path of hope to lead him towards what he thought was an imminent and ominous old age.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy--one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but, like a child eating his ice cream so slowly that he couldn't taste it at all.

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale - and yet they weren't unhappy either.

I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

New York'u sevmeye baÅŸlam??t?m; gecelerinin o canl?, maceraya aç?k havas?; kad?nlar?n, adamlar?n,makinelerin sürekli deviniminin uykusuz gözlere verdiÄŸi doyum hoÅŸuma gidiyordu.

If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place.

My Aunt Bess is about sixty-five years old and has never been married. She told me that they may put Miss on her tombstone, but that she hasn't missed a thing.

Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.

Her fondest wish had come true, and here she was actually living smack-dab in the middle of what she once thought to be an impossible dream.

wasn't her love and attention enough

A nossa alma e o céu e a terra bastam-nos.     Querer mais é perder isto, e ser infeliz.

I have all the conditions for happiness, save happiness. The conditions are detached from one another.

A avea cât s? m?nânci ÅŸi s? bei,unde s? locuieÅŸti ÅŸi puÅ£in timp liber ca s? poÅ£i s? visezi,s? scrii sau s? dormi,oare ce aÅŸ putea s? le cer mai mult Zeilor,sau s? sper din partea Destinului?

Sou definitivamente contra o definido, porque o definido é o bastante e o bastante não basta.

To attain the satisfactions of the mystic state without having to endure its rigours; to be the ecstatic follower of no god, the mystic or epopt* with no initiation; to pass the days meditating on a paradise you don't believe in – all of this tastes good to the soul that knows what it means to know nothing.

To be content with what one is given shows an attitude fit for slaves; only children ask for more; only madmen want to conquer more, for every conquest is […]

Feliz, finalmente, quien renuncia a todo, y a quien, por renunciar a todo, nada le puede ser quitado o reducido.

To conform is to submit, and to conquer is to conform, to be conquered. Thus every victory is a debasement. The conqueror inevitably loses all the marks of frustration with the status quo that led him to the fight that brought victory. He becomes satisfied, and only those who conform – who lack the conqueror's mentality – are satisfied. Only the man who never achieves his goal conquers. Only the man who is forever discouraged is strong.

Desengañémonos de la esperanza, porque traiciona en el amor, porque cansa en la vida, porque harta y no se sacia, y hasta de la muerte, porque trae más de lo que se quiere y menos de lo que se espera.

Though naturally ambitious, he savored the pleasure of having no ambitions at all.

Let's not forget to hate those who enjoy, just because they enjoy, and to despise those who are happy, because we didn't know how to be happy like them.