Quotes About Satisfaction

Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable. As soon as I realized that, New York lost much of its charm for me.

Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself.

Aching for one thing and enjoying something else aren't mutually exclusive.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?

Ray likes how smooth I am, how raw my skin is. It burns by the time he's done touching it.

You're an easy woman to please," he had said to her. And she had said, "You may be the first person to think that.

Olive finished the doughnut, wiped the sugar from her fingers, sat back and said, "You're starving." The girl didn't move, only said, "Uh-duh." "I'm starving too," Olive said. The girl looked over at her. "I am," Olive said. "Why do you think I eat every doughnut in sight?" "You're not starving," Nina said in disgust. "Sure I am. We all are.

There was an old African proverb Dottie had read one day that said, "After a man eats, he becomes shy." And Dottie thought of that now with Shelly. Shelly was like the man in the proverb; having satisfied her needs, she was ashamed. She had confided more than she had wanted to, and now Dottie was somehow to blame.

Haweeya had never been able to figure out exactly what Americans wanted. (Everything, she sometimes thought. They wanted everything.)

What did I ever do, Celia thought, to have such a wonderful, satisfying, happy life?

El dolor que experimentamos cuando no nos sentimos amados es tan real, como el dolor corporal. Cuando las necesidades emocionales permanecen insatisfechas se convierten en sensaciones reales de un profundo malestar corporal, ansiedad, depresión, dolor de cabeza, de estómago, en fin, de un temor fuera de foco. La insatisfacción de las necesidades es una amenaza a la integridad del sistema; se transforma en dolor porque éste nos alerta de las amenazas que nos produce esa privación.

Gewenning. Het lijkt verraderlijk veel op tevredenheid maar is het tegenovergestelde.

And he drank, and the more he drank the more he longed to drink, because the wine was enchanted.

In Brooklyn I am content, the closest we can come to a sustained happiness.

There was a deep pleasure in simply knowing what happened to everyone at the end.

Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

When we trustfully resign ourselves, and all our affairs into God's hands, fully persuaded of His love and faithfulness, the sooner shall we be satisfied with His providences and realize that "He doeth all things well.