Quotes About Satisfaction

These people are grumblers and complainers, living only to satisfy their desires. —Jude 16

Some people are always greedy for more, but the godly love to give! —Proverbs 21:26

All I need is some barbecue sauce," he said aloud, grease dripping down his chin. "And a Coke . . .

All I need is some barbecue sauce," he said aloud, grease dripping down his chin. "And a Coke . . ." When

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

As psychologist Susan Weinschenk explained,[52] 'dopamine causes us to want, desire, seek out, and search'. Yet 'the dopamine system is stronger than the opioid system. We seek more than we are satisfied. ... Seeking is more likely to keep us alive than sitting around in a satisfied stupor.

Viewers routinely spend hours surfing galleries of porn videos searching for the right video to finish, keeping dopamine elevated for abnormally long periods. But try to envision a hunter-gatherer routinely spending the same number of hours masturbating to the same stick-figure on a cave wall. Didn't happen.

But CREB's effects don't limit themselves to a user's 'drug' of choice. Other things that used to make a porn viewer feel good, such as socializing, watching a movie or playing a favourite game, pale because of the dulling effects of CREB. Desensitisation leaves us bored, less satisfied, and often searching for anything to increase dopamine. It can lead a porn fan straight back to porn.

I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer!

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar

Is it any duller than on EARTH? Whose inhabitants spend most of their lives trying to get laid, watching sitcoms on television, and grunting for money?

I mentally savored the moment of America's triumph like a fine wine.

Don't nobody ever want it to rain," the nearest of the sellers of beasts remarked philosophically, "but everybody wants to go on eatin'.

if he is to feel full satisfaction at the moment when Time lifts his own severed head by the hair, he must add to the execution some feature however small that is entirely his own and that he will never repeat. Only thus can he feel himself a free artist.

We keep wanting more because we don't let ourselves have what we already have

The fantasy of the taste of M&Ms is more enchanting than the taste of M&Ms

hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.

Most people don't want what they want: people love to be prevented, restricted. The hamster not only loves his cage, he'd be lost without it.

When faced with too many alternatives and too much information, they satisfice (March and Simon 1958).

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife. You'll find God's plenty all you could desire; Of the remainder, better not enquire.

He who covets is a poor wretch, because he longs for what he can not have. But he who has naught, and covets naught, is rich, although you may think him but a lowly knave.

por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido.

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.