Quotes About Satisfaction

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Keep the right perspective Some people would love to have your problems. They would gladly trade places with you. They would love to have the job that frustrates you. They would love to sit in traffic in that car you don't like. They would love to have your husband, who gets on your nerves. They would love to live in the house you think is too small.

Anything you must have to be happy, the enemy can use it against you. When you can say, "God, this is what I want, but even if it doesn't work out my way, I'm still going to be happy." That takes away the power of the enemy.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

gift all needs are met.

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

I held her in my arms last night," he said quietly. "And when I felt her every response, I thought, 'There's nothing else I could ever want.' Whether there's a Heaven or not, it doesn't matter. This…Those moments when she gave me everything were more than I ever hoped Heaven could be.

To get the most out of what you wanted, you had to have what you needed first.

Despair often happens, he had learned, when there is a "lack of balance between efforts and rewards.

The difference between being online and being physically among people, I saw in that moment, is a bit like the difference between pornography and sex: it addresses a basic itch, but it's never satisfying.

Materialistic people, who think happiness comes from accumulating stuff and a superior status, had much higher levels of depression and anxiety.

You've got to pull yourself out of the materialistic environments—the environments that are reinforcing the materialistic values," he says, because they cripple your internal satisfactions. And then, he says, to make that sustainable, you have to "replace them with actions that are going to provide those intrinsic satisfactions, [and] encourage those intrinsic goals.

Materialism is KFC for the soul.

When the results came back and were all calculated out, Tim was struck by the results: materialistic people, who think happiness comes from accumulating stuff and a superior status, had much higher levels of depression and anxiety.

Nearly twice as many people hate their jobs as love their jobs.

Armut ist ohne Zweifel das Schrecklichste, mir dürft' einer 10 Millionen hinlegen und sagen, ich soll arm sein dafür, ich nehmet's nicht.

He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.

from desire I rush to satisfaction; from satisfaction I leap to desire.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.

I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.