Quotes About Satisfaction

You can kill joy by not looking happy enough.

The detective thinks he is investigating a murder or a missing girl. But truly he is investigating something else altogether, something he cannot grasp hold of directly. Satisfaction will be rare. Uncertainty will be your natural state. Sureness will always elude you. The detective will always circle around what he wants, never seeing it whole. We do not go on despite this. We go on because of it.

People thought money would make them happy. But money was the consolation prize in life. Money was what you had left to dream for when all the other dreams died. Money was what would keep you going when nothing else could delight you again.

They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

Give orange give me eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you. —NIM CHIMPSKY, 1970s Gimme gimme more, gimme more, gimme gimme more. —BRITNEY SPEARS, 2007

Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.

If I had to choose between making love and corn on the cob, I'd pick corn on the cob.

When do you think you're leaving? I asked. I don't know. Probably soon. Got what I came here for. Even though we didn't go back to your old house? That was only part of it, he said. Not the main thing. A few more big flakes of snow drifted down from the starlit sky. And what was the main thing? This, he said. Right here.

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

The truth was, there was no way everything could be the Best. Sometimes, when it came to events and people, it had to be okay to just be .

It was just perfect, just right all at once.

Sometimes, fewer choices can be a good thing.

What you do in your dreams is never your choice. But it made me happy anyway.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

She'd wanted so much for me: the moon and more. But maybe, right now, the moon was enough.

Despite her misgivings, she understood that he was somehow filling a void we might have not even known was there.

But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. You know?

But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

Embrace the messy and when things do come together just right, you'll always be pleasantly surprised.

for once life is comfortable, there is nothing to fear, nothing to fight for. Which means in turn that there is nothing to look forward to.

on fading passion) Sex was like the can of baking powder she kept on a high shelf in her pantry, something she didn't need right now but that she knew she could get her hands on without too much trouble.

If you're content not having sex with your partner, that's fine. But you might want to consider the following fact. Most people are having sex with somebody. - Constance Waverly, The Waverly Report

There seems to be no end to the satisfaction one gets in having one's opinions confirmed.

To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie—the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.