Quotes About Satisfaction

he despises all honors, and contents himself with those written on his passport." "That

Es gibt weder Glück noch Unglück auf dieser Welt, es gibt nur eine Vergleichung eines Zustandes mit einem anderen und mehr nicht.

After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just.

Nada más desagradable a quienes se encolerizan que la indiferencia de aquellos a quienes dirigen sus iras. Uno no gasta energías en enfadarse para desperdiciarlas. Uno se excita, pone la sangre en ebullición para algo. No merece la pena si esta ebullición no produce una chispita de satisfacción. (P. 240)

Well, monsieur, I am suffering at this moment something strange, and that is the satisfaction of despair. There is in certain souls - and I have just discovered that mine is of the number - a real satisfaction in the assurance that all is lost, and the time is come to yield.

I do believe, Albert, that you are quite set this morning on feeding me with illusions. 'Ah, you must admit that's the diet that best satisfies the stomach.

Tre mesi prima aspirava solo alla libertà e ora già non gli bastava, voleva la ricchezza; non era colpa sua, ma di Dio, che ha concesso all'uomo possibilità limitate ma desideri infiniti.

Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.' 'The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse.

After this, satisfied with the way in which he had conducted himself at Meung, without remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he retired to bed and slept the sleep of the brave.

he looked up with the satisfied air of a man who thinks he has made a discovery when he has commented on someone else's idea

The unfortunates cling to the smallest hopes, as the happy do to the greatest good;

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man's imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.

The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams…never for reality.

The place where what someone needs and what she desires cross each other to become one.

You could not have all that you wanted, but if you found love, you were fortunate.

The worst thing in the world is a wish that comes true.

What if I don't wish to be what I am?" "Then you will face a life of unhappiness

Being happy," Uncle Tommy liked to say, "takes a great deal of work." He said he had no time for anything else.

Why not? Bread was what you wanted over the long haul, when you got right down to it. When you got right down to it, you wouldn't want a lifetime of cake.

He said that we had just had an argument, what more did I want? It was too polite, I said.

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood—that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. It could be brimful of occupations which did not weary you to the bone.

Time had been filled, reliably, agreeably, they had not been left adrift, and for this they were truly embarrassingly grateful.

I know how you love this place, he says to me, apologetically yet with satisfaction. And I don't tell him that I am not sure now whether I love any place, and that it seems to me it was myself I loved here - some self that I have finished with, and none too soon.