Quotes About Satisfaction

Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.

The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate.

Need and desire have no connection,' I said. 'Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.

Barnabas speaks] I will drink water. Water? But water is not fit for men to drink. For the cattle, for birds and beast, but a man needs ale . . . or wine, if you are a Frenchman. [William answers]

I have education and once I had position. Now I am nobody, but I am happy.

The things a man will wish for are harder to leave behind than all his wants...

Need and desire have no connection," I said. "Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.

for what man does not love that which he himself has built?

Many people desire things they do not need.

Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.

Trouble with me was, I was a mighty poor hater. There was satisfaction in winning, but winning would have been better if nobody had to lose. That's the way I've always felt, I guess.

I'm satisfied," said the man with the bald head. "Okay, Jennifer," said the first man, "you may go now." Jenny got out of her seat. "Jenny," the bald man called. Jenny turned slowly around. "Yes?" she whispered. "Next time, don't come to school on a Saturday.

I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

Come, Philander, let us be a marching, Every one his true love a searching, Would be the most appropriate motto for this chapter, because, intimidated by the threats, denunciations, and complaints showered upon me in consequence of taking the liberty to end a certain story as I liked, I now yield to the amiable desire of giving satisfaction, and, at the risk of outraging all the unities, intend to pair off everybody I can lay my hands on.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?

Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful.

We've got Father and Mother, and each other, said Beth contentedly from her corner.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.