Quotes About Satisfaction

we shouldn't always have what we want: it spoils the best of us, doesn't it?

Alas! how far the promise of anticipation exceeds the pleasure of possession!

His appetite for the stimulus of wine had increased upon him, as I had too well foreseen. It was now something more to him than an accessory to social enjoyment: it was an important source of enjoyment in itself.

Was it pride that made me so extremely anxious to appear satisfied with my lot - or merely a just determination to bear my self-imposed burden alone, and preserve my best friend from the slightest participation in those sorrows from which she had striven so hard to save me? It might have been something of each, but I am sure the latter motive was predominant.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I'm a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

We have many reasons to hope for great happiness, but … we have to earn it. And that's something you can't achieve by taking the easy way out. Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

We all live but we don't know the why or the wherefore. We all live with the object of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same. We have the chance to learn, the possibility of attaining something, we have all reason to hope for much happiness, but we must earn it for ourselves. And that is never easy. You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

If only I can be myself, I'll be satisfied.

I've always been the clown and mischief maker of the family; I've always had to pay double for my sins: once with scoldings and then again with my own sense of despair. I'm no longer satisfied with the meaningless affection or the supposedly serious talks.

Let me be myself and then I am satisfied

Bep's easy to please and that pleases us.

My parents are pleased, but they're not like other parents when it comes to grades. They never worry about report cards, good or bad. As long as I'm healthy and happy and don't talk back too much, they're satisfied. If these three things are all right, everything else will take care of itself.

Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

We three have been raised in good families, we have the opportunity to get an education and make something of ourselves. We have many reasons to hope for great happiness, but... we have to earn it. And that's something you can't achieve by taking the easy way out. Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Ich weiss, was ich will, habe ein Ziel, habe eine eigene Meinung, habe einen Glauben und eine Liebe. Lasst mich ich selbst sein, dann bin ich zufrieden! Ich weiss, dass ich eine Frau bin, eine Frau mit innerer Starke und viel Mut!

we all have reason to hope for happiness, but . . . we must earn it for ourselves. And that is never easy. You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness my appear attractive, bur work gives satisfaction.

being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised.

A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.

When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love (April 2012, O Magazine)

She wants to have hiked; I want to have had dessert.

The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.

The facts of this world will never satisfy the human heart, but what we give each other can, when it holds love.