Quotes About Satisfaction

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Oil's been pretty darned good to us," she said. "I don't want a smaller house. I don't want to drive a smaller car.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life striving after something he thinks will make him so

Indeed the best thing about happiness itself," Lewis writes, "is that it liberates you from thinking about happiness—as the greatest pleasure that money can give us is to make it unnecessary to think about money . .

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

Progressives have finally convinced everyone to think alike, but without joy, satisfaction, or social harmony in return — just self-righteousness and misery.

Happiness flooded through him in warm tides.

Life is not what we want but what we have.

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

We must stop eating!' cried Toad as he ate another.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have 50 million but I was just as happy when I had 48 million.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's

Roland Oberstein is gelukkig, zou hijzelf verklaren, omdat hij niets wil wat hij niet kan krijgen. Wat hij wil kan hij krijgen. Wat hij niet kan krijgen, wil hij niet. Zo eenvoudig is het recept voor geluk.

Let us all be happy and live within our means, Even if we have to borrow money to do it with.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want

The joy that came to your caveman ancestor from finding a sweet berry on a bush couldn't occupy him for very long, lest he be distracted from the threat of the tiger, for whom your ancestor would make a nice lunch. That's why, when it comes to success, you can't ever get enough.

In the words of the Spanish Catholic saint Josemaría Escrivá, "He has most who needs least. Don't create needs for yourself."[19

satisfaction is possible—just not with the old formulas. We need to toss out all that bad math and use this one equation instead, which incorporates the wisdom of Siddhartha and Thomas and the best modern social science: Satisfaction = What you have ÷ what you want Your satisfaction is what you have, divided by what you want.

In the words of the Spanish Catholic saint Josemaría Escrivá, "He has most who needs least. Don't create needs for yourself.

Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things, but paying attention to smaller and smaller things. Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh explains this in his book The Miracle of Mindfulness:

Without desire, one's original nature will be at peace.