Quotes About Satisfaction

Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.

Success takes many forms. Most people strive for something unattainable without realizing that it's already theirs.

Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure".

Success' is world's most beautiful thing

When it's all said and done, I hope to die with a smile on my face.

Success is not measured on what you earn, it is how you manage to be happy, benevolent and contented with your life.

I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success.

Success shouldn't be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content.

Life is for happiness not for success.

Perfection is doing all that you could. And there's not a single thing more you can do.

Success is not defined by status, money, education, career or another person but rather by the level of peace that I have within myself.

The greatest measure of success is the amount of joy you experience.

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

Begreppet 'lycklig i alla sina dagar', illusionen om bestående lycka, är i själva verket en oxymoron. Antingen konstant lycka eller klimax. Evig lycka är inte någon lycka, på samma sätt som evig orgasm inte alls är någon orgasm.

When you discover something long after others have known it, there is a heady contentment that comes.

First (but not last) lesson about futility of trying to replicate good thing or good experience—never as good second time, only causes disappointment.

I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.

I was greedy, she warned, and could not fill my heart with enough pleasure, my stomach with enough contentment, my body with enough sleep. I was like a rice basket with a rat hole at the bottom, and thus could not be satisfied and overflow, nor could I be filled. I would never know the full depth and breadth of love, beauty, or happiness. She said it like a curse.

Maybe the kind of love that would comfort me did not exist. Perhaps I expected too much of love and no one existed who could ever meet my unceasing and bottomless need for it.

And I remembered reading an article about baby boomers, how we expect the best and when we get it we worry that maybe we should have expected more, because it's all diminishing returns after a certain age.

knowing I had finally arrived where my life said I belonged.

And once you reached the top, you would be able to see everything and feel such happiness it would be enough to never have worries in your life ever again.

The hunger in our hearts was instantly filled.