Quotes About Satisfaction

Ceaseless change is an unreliable basis for lasting fulfillment.

Everything we want to accomplish—to paint the house, learn a new language, find a better job—is something that promises that, if done, it would allow us to finally relax and enjoy our lives in the present. Generally speaking, this is a false hope.

Where is the freedom in being perfectly satisfied with your thoughts, intentions, and subsequent actions when they are the product of prior events that you had absolutely no hand in creating?

But while having some choice is generally good, it seems that having too many options tends to undermine our feelings of satisfaction, no matter which option we choose.

I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not moved to do what I believe will make me happier than I now am.

Our pleasures, however refined or easily acquired, are by their very nature fleeting. They begin to subside the instant the arise, only to be replaced by fresh desires or feelings of discomfort.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.

Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.

The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one's spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.