Quotes About Satisfaction

The whole of everything I want in this world is right here, under my hand.

A hungry man can long for hot meat and gravy without disdaining the simple pleasures of bread and cheese.

Justicia. Eso es algo que anhelar, algo de lo que nunca estaremos hartos. Pero no. Nos conformamos con la ley

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it become even rarer once one has a child.

Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law.

no man can truly imagine being happy, and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.

Stop longing. You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

Sounds a little like my quote for the week. Do you want to hear it? This is by Augustine: O soul, He only who created thee can satisfy thee. If thou ask for anything else, it is thy misfortune, for He alone made thee in His image can satisfy thee. That's rich, isn't it?

Everyone knows that for a woman to conceive in the act of coition she, as well as the man. must be satisfied. Is that not true? Of corse it is true.

Hungry people make poor shoppers.

How can our faith become biblically responsible, intellectually honest, emotionally satisfying, and socially significant?

What is the proper object of our worship, and what would it take to make Christianity compelling, even irresistible, again?" How can our faith become biblically responsible, intellectually honest, emotionally satisfying, and socially significant?

religion at its best should be biblically responsible, intellectually honest, emotionally satisfying, and socially significant.

In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition.

She does it for the food and the satisfaction of hard work yielding something so prolific, she says. And it makes her feel at home in a place, to have her hands in the earth.

Gratitude doesn't send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity, subverting the foundation of the whole economy. That's good medicine for land and people alike.

tricks us into believing that belongings will fill our hunger, when it is belonging that we crave

Maybe we've all been banished to lonely corners by our obsession with private property. We've accepted banishment even from ourselves when we spend our beautiful, utterly singular lives on making more money, to buy more things that feed but never satisfy. It is the Windigo way that tricks us into believing that belongings will fill our hunger, when it is belonging that we crave.

Gratitude doesn't send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

He worked as an agent for the same reason people worked as accountants and lawyers and corporate clerks. Because he was good at it. Because he liked the challenge. Because when the job was done right, he felt good about himself.

I love sex. The harder the better. A moment where I don't have to think, where I can escape my own mind? Afterwards, I might even get a good night's sleep. But the minute it's over, you're gonna want what you're gonna want, and I'm still gonna be me.

Because that's the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.

Everything she needed, too, she couldn't deny.