Quotes About Satisfaction

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

You cannot have a clean conscience without satisfying justice, and this Christ did when He died on the cross.

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

Tendemos demasiado fácilmente a asociar nuestra satisfacción con un sentimiento de bienestar, a buscarla únicamente en nuestra comodidad. Perdemos de vista que, por debajo y detrás de todo eso, está Dios, que nos mantiene y sostiene. Dios permite que nuestro mundo se trastoque para recordarnos que no es nuestra morada permanente ni nuestro destino final y trabajemos por nuestro destino eterno y nuestra salvación.

He seemed to be buffeted from both sides, challenged by his dreams, which revolted at the compromises of reality, and assaulted by reality which denounced the emptiness of all dreams. He seemed to spend himself in that struggle - the severest that a man can face; and he seemed to win by a constant renewal of effort in which he refused to sink either into placid acceptance of the world, or into self-contained satisfaction with his vision.

La premisa es como sigue: cuanto más hagas del "ganar" un valor, paradójicamente, más destinado estarás a perder.

Mi felicidad consiste en que sé apreciar lo que tengo y no deseo con exceso lo que no tengo. LEÓN TOLSTÓI

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

They should consider themselves richer since they are now more robust in putting up with privations. It is better to need less than to have more.

He who has need of riches feels fear on their account. But no man enjoys a blessing that brings anxiety. He is always trying to add a little more. While he puzzles over increasing his wealth, he forgets how to use it.

Don't imagine having things that you don't have. Rather, pick the best of the things that you do have and think of how much you would want them if you didn't have them. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.27

There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you do is for yourself And there isn't one.

The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.

I believe that once you find something you love, something that works, why keep looking for more? People always think there is something better around the corner. I decided a long time ago I'd stop wasting my time looking for something better and enjoy what I had.