Quotes About Satisfaction

My experience of meditation was different from one day to the next, but a common thread emerged: the way I felt afterward. I began to experience a quiet satisfaction from my daily practice of quieting my mind.

Satisfaction involves an active pursuit- it is the emotional reward we get after adapting to a new situation or solving a novel problem.

He was often angry at people because they contrarily refused to fit in nicely with his theories. And, of course, it was the people who were wrong. The theories had been advanced by the most Eminent Authorities, and proved by carefully selected case histories. His one satisfaction in life was that so many of the laws he had advocated to make people conform to these theories had been passed-despite strong opposition.

We look to the accumulation of sensory pleasures to give our lives meaning. We have the ability now to consume anything we want and this capacity far exceeds our actual needs. With so much at our fingertips, a kind of gluttony pervades our mind-sets.

After an Indian meal they went back to Jamie's flat and Tony did at least two things to him on the sofa that no one had ever done to him before then came back and them again the following evening, and suddenly life became very good indeed.

Perhaps the secret was to stop looking for greener grass. Perhaps the secret was to make the best of what you had.

I want nothing more than what I have, for what I have is enough. I'm grateful for it. I foresee no reward, no eternal life. I expect only to leave further pieces of my heart in one place or another, but I love God nonetheless, with every atom of my being, and will love Him until I fall into black oblivion.

You don't want to be content with yourself. People who are, are insufferable, the walking dead. But you don't want to be entirely driven, either, because then you just skate over the world and never touch it.

General S. P. Lyman quotes Webster concluding one recipe: "Such a dish, smoked hot, placed before you, after a long morning spent in exhilarating sport, will make you no longer envy the gods.

But when we believe that only what we want holds the gold, then we find ourselves easily depressed by what we lack. Then we are pained by what we perceive as the difference between here and there, between what we have and what we need.

People doing good work feel good & people doing exceptional work feel, exceptional. Accomplishments contributes greatly to satisfaction.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. ABRAHAM MASLOW

Comparison is the death of joy.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Do you think you will keep your life, or anything else you love? But no. Your needs are all met. But not as the world giveth. You see the needs of your own spirit met whenever you have asked, and you have learned that the outrageous guarantee holds. You see the creatures die, and you know you will die. And one day it occurs to you that you must not need life.

V prvom rade sú to naÅ¡e myÅ¡lienkové vzorce, nie udalosti, ktoré nás vedú k nespokojnosti, ?i spokojnosti.

He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.

I think people lose sight of the fact that chefs should be ultimately in the pleasure business, not in the look-at-me business.

Hot, salty, crunchy, and portable, the previously awful-sounding collection of greasy delights can become a Garden of Eden of heart-clogging goodness when you're in a drunken stupor, hungering for fried snacks. At that precise moment, nothing could taste better.

This sounds like positive social change, right? Anything the revs are against is surely a good thing. Fine-looking women, smoking and drinking and gambling and doing whatever they like? Sounds good!

It was a protein rush to the cortex, a clean, three-ingredient high, eaten with the hands. Could anything be better than that?

What is love? Love is eating twenty-four ounces of raw fish at four o'clock in the morning.

Qualquer sonho que eu pudesse acalentar sobre a magia de uma grande, famosa e elegante cozinha nova-iorquina foi substituído pelo orgulho triste dos expedientes criativos e pela satisfação técnica de ser suficientemente rápido para aguentar e safar-me com truques, mentiras e disfarces.

Pretty much mention oxtail, and ragù, and I'm ready to slit somebody's throat for a bite.