Quotes About Satisfaction

Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, "How do you know when you've finished making love?

The ones who wrote about what they had already achieved had higher satisfaction with their current tasks and projects, as compared with the ones who reflected on what they had not yet achieved. But

The result suggests that telling yourself 'I can have this later' operates in the mind a bit like having it now. It satisfies the craving to some degree—and can be even more effective at suppressing the appetite than actually eating the treat...the ones who'd postponed pleasure ate even less than the people who had earlier allowed themselves to eat the candy at will.

Even within a family, the demands of taking care of children may clash with those of maintaining a good relationship with one's spouse, which may help explain why marital satisfaction declines when a couple gives birth to their first child and goes back up when the last child finally moves out.

A nossa vida começa justamente com o advento da inutilidade. Pois o momento da inutilidade marca o início da vida de gozo. Nada mais preciso fazer. Travei as batalhas que tinha de travar. Nada devo a ninguém. Estou livre agora para me entregar ao deleite.

There are some lucky people who feel they experience happiness when they gaze at a cloud or walk on the beach but the rest of us only get that special tingly buzz when we've bought, won, achieved, hooked or booked something. Then our own brains give us a hit of dopamine, which makes us feel good. We don't need substances; we are our own drug dealers. The

Our culture promotes an endless need for fulfillment to always want what the next guy has, even though the effort might kill us.

My only wish is that my wishes be at rest.

As soon as someone drivers their attention from any team to ask, "How am I doing?" he takes his concern and energy from the task and shifts them to the question of his own adequacy or deficiency. The best motivation for doing a job well is the satisfaction of doing it.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

I have never understood why "hard work" is supposed to be pitiable. True, some work is soul destroying when it is done against the grain, but when it is part of "making" how can you grudge it? You get tired, of course, but the struggle, the challenge, the feeling of being extended as you never thought you could be is fulfilling and deeply, deeply satisfying.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

This is how we are with wine and beautiful food... we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward.

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

Happiness is wanting what you already have.

For the most time I've followed instinct rather than intelligence, and this has resulted in a modicum of happiness.

The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying. Something

A good monk would know that contentment is easier to attain than happiness, and that it is enough.

Dry bread at home is better then curried prawns abroad.

Happiness is a mysterious thing to be found between too little and too much.

The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying.

I don't like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don't come at the end of it.

Better bread with water than cake with trouble.