Quotes About Satisfaction

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Her thighs are oiled and dark, and oblivion never felt as good as it does now

Their own life together was like a subtle watercolor sketch, invisible to other people. They gave the world what it required of them and for the rest of the time were content to be forgotten.

Nothing tastes better than what one eats by oneself.

This might come as a shock: if you aren't happy now, maybe you haven't wanted it enough.

Let us pray to God that other gifts may not so satisfy us, that we never grasp the fact that the absence of this grace (humility) is the secret cause why the power of God cannot do its mighty work.

Dear God, your Word has made what you require of us so perfectly clear: you desire a clean heart and loving obedience. Purify my heart by removing all iniquity from my life by the power of your Holy Spirit. I desire to be wholly transformed by your indwelling presence. I want to be with you every moment, and ask that you would give me the happy satisfaction of being used by you. Amen.

Nothing short of conformity to Christ—a life wholly dedicated to God—should satisfy you.

It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.

what do I want from life? And I say: "Less!

Clark always says that you can be thin or you can be happy, and, Arthur, I have already tried thin.

He is not the best. But he is the best I ever had.

But once you've actually been in love, you can't live with "will do"; it's worse than living with yourself.

It is a bad musical, but like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do it's job perfectly well.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece. I don't even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not have to have it on my mind any more. I would rather either have it now or know I'll never have it so I don't have to think about it.

Well, I think every day's a vacation for me. When you really, really like what you're working on, it's like always being on vacation.

Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.

Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1. -Duncan Howe

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.

She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn't have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.