Quotes About Satisfaction

I have no desire to keep playing international Test cricket, and not a day has gone by that I've regretted retiring.

Enjoy every moment because it is so good and just a testament to all the work you've put in.

This is what I wanted all along, and after I finished my studies and begun the job of testing jet aircraft, well, there wasn't a happier pilot in the air force.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some happiness in order to gain the depth.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

The point is that you figure out what that "audience" wants (not needs), and give them something right away that you know they'll love.

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

There was a lot of joy to be had in the contemplation of a pint glass; in terms of plain reality of course, there was a deal more to be had in the draining of one.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

The iguanodon has modest powers of self awareness. She feels happy and complacent and content. She feels efficient, in a vague "I'm doing what I should be doing and I'm doing it well" sort of way.

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Others who habitually do their duty and find a sullen satisfaction in making themselves and everybody else unhappy, might have withstood it.

Fantasies act to "nourish" the ego in the form of a partial gratification and thus can contribute to psychological equilibrium when security or satisfaction from the real environment is lacking.

They feel the sensation of their deep hunger and need in the pit of their stomachs—the feeling of hunger really does exist.

In a defended state, individuals have learned partially to satisfy their own needs, to fulfill their own goals in fantasy. In imagining that they don't need anyone, that they are capable of taking care of themselves through self-parenting behaviors, they must react negatively to events and to people who offer real gratification. They become dishonest when they attempt to deceive themselves and others that they still want real satisfaction, real friendship or relationships.

Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a question streams a wonderful fragrance.

We are designed to feel that the next great goal will bring bliss, and the bliss is designed to evaporate shortly after we get there. Natural selection has a malicious sense of humor; it leads us along with a series of promises and then keeps saying "Just kidding.

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

Underlying it all is the happiness delusion. As the Buddha emphasized, our ongoing attempts to feel better tend to involve an overestimation of how long "better" is going to last. What's more, when "better" ends, it can be followed by "worse"—an unsettled feeling, a thirst for more. Long before psychologists were describing the hedonic treadmill, the Buddha saw it.

One of the Buddha's main messages was that the pleasures we seek evaporate quickly and leave us thirsting for more. We spend our time looking for the next gratifying thing—the next powdered-sugar doughnut, the next sexual encounter, the next status-enhancing promotion, the next online purchase. But the thrill always fades, and it always leaves us wanting more.

One of the Buddha's main messages was that the pleasures we seek evaporate quickly and leave us thirsting for more.

In sum: you can best achieve success at meditation by not pursuing success, and achieving this success may mean caring less about success, at least as success is conventionally defined.