Quotes About Satisfaction

it always makes me feel good about myself when I've dressed appropriately. It happens so rarely.

Everything is okay. These will be very merry noodles.

With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while.

Reason tells the soul how mistaken it is in thinking that all these earthly things are of the slightest value by comparison with what it is seeking. A little recollection reminds it that all these things come to an end. And faith instructs it in what the soul must do to find satisfaction. . . .

But when we train the senses we conserve our vital energy, the very stuff of life. Patient and secure within, we do not have to look to externals for satisfaction. No matter what happens outside--whether events are for or against us, however people behave towards us, whether we get what pleases us or do not--we are in no way dependent. Then it is that we can give freely to others; then it is that we can love.

Like hungry chickens, when we cannot be fed what we need, we feed ourselves what we can find.

Would you rather be a happy pig or an unhappy human?

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Công th?c cho s? ngu d?t chung thân là: Th?a mãn v?i quan ?i?m c?a mình và hài lòng v?i tri th?c c?a mình.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull.

Potemkin suffered bitterly from having nothing left to want. For when dreams turn into reality, there is an empty spot where the dreams used to be, and Potemkin had no dreams left.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Whatever period of life we are in is good only to the extent that we make use of it, that we live it to the hilt, that we continue to develop and understand what it has to offer us and what we have to offer it. The rewards for each age are different in kind, but they are not necessarily different in value or in satisfaction.

HAPPINESS is not a goal, it is a by-product.

We should be able to realize that making up our minds as to what gives us the greatest amount of pleasure and then working for it, is one of the satisfactions of life.

When we admit that one can not retrace one's steps and live life over again, we may accept the fact that we might as well savor it and enjoy it as we go along and not always be striving for something in the future which after all we may never achieve nor enjoy.