Quotes About Satisfaction

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.

You don't get tired of muffins. But you don't find inspiration in them

why is it that the people who know how to enjoy themselves never have any money and the people who have money never know how to enjoy themselves?

My experience is that one's pleasures don't bear thinking about.

I'm glad he's hungry. Not that I want him to suffer, poor chap! But then he'll enjoy eating me much more. There's a cheerful side to everything.

The secret of a happy life is to do work you enjoy and then you'll be too busy to know whether you're happy or not.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Usually I enjoy a first night as a surgeon enjoys an operation: this time I enjoyed it as a playgoer enjoys a pleasant performance.

En todos los conciertos clásicos que se dan en Inglaterra verás filas de gente cansada que están allí, no porque realmente les guste la música clásica, sino porque creen que deben estar. Pues bien, lo mismo pasa en el cielo. Hay muchos que están sentados en la gloria, no porque sean felices, sino porque creen que su posición les obliga a estar en el cielo.

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not

True grace is recognizing and appreciating what you have in your hands instead of trying to keep up with everybody else's "prosperity.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

Did you ever eat a whole box of cookies right in a row? Did you ever do that? I don't mean take them into your bedroom or something. I mean open them right up in the kitchen as soon as you get home from the store and eat 'em while you're standing there? Just stare at the toaster while you're eatin' a whole goddamn box of cookies?

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth.

For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they want a change--they do, I know, God help 'em.

I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content.

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.