Quotes About Satisfaction

As for thyself, thou hast to do with neither. Go thy ways then well pleased and contented: for so is He that dismisseth thee.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Ne snatri o posjedovanju onog što nemaš, radije razmišljaju o vrhunskim blagoslovima u onome što posjeduješ i stoga podsje?aj sebe koliko bi ti nedostajali da nisu ondje. No istovremeno, moraš paziti da te vlastito uživanje u njima ne navikne na ovisnost, i tako izbje?i nemir ako ih ponekad nema.

You will have your own examples of a work environment that seems to be firing on all cylinders. It will be a place where performance levels are consistently high, where turnover levels are low, and where a growing number of loyal customers join the fold every day.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

Zoals de dwaasheid nooit tevreden is, zelfs niet als haar wensen worden vervuld, zo is de wijsheid steeds tevreden met wat voorhanden is, en heeft nooit onvrede met zichzelf.

Dac? ai o gr?din? ?i o bibliotec?, ai tot ce-?i trebuie.

Novel-writing is not so much a profession as a yoga, or way, an alternative to ordinary life-in-the-world. Its benefits are quasi-religious—a changed quality of mind and heart, satisfactions no non-novelist can understand—and its rigors generally bring no profit except to the spirit. For those who are authentically called to the profession, spiritual profits are enough.--John Gardner

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

Last year I abstained this year I devour without guilt which is also an art

Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.

But mostly she likes the fact that there's a reason for every death, and only one murderer at a time, and things get figured out at the end, and the murderer always gets caught.

No one ever told you greed and hunger are not the same.

She's the kind of woman who wants what she doesn't have and gets what she wants and then despises what she gets.

But I envy the Commander's Wife her knitting. It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.

I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

We fight in whispers or well out of the way, because if we're caught we will both be punished. For this reason we don't tell on each other. We know from experience that the satisfactions of betrayal are scarcely worth it.

Nothing helps gluttony along so well as eating food you don't have to pay for yourself

We would lie in those afternoon beds, afterwards, hands on each other, talking it over. Possible, impossible. What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

I admit I relish it, this lick of dissipation.