Quotes About Satisfaction

Life is good. I like my job.

Chefs and restaurateurs will have to go back to their original business model: sell people food they like and make money doing it.

And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed: that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.

That was everything. I'd done the lot now. And me still only fifteen.

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

If certain individuals fall in love from motives of convenience, they can be contrasted with plenty of others in whom passion seems principally aroused by the intensity of administrative difficulties in procuring its satisfaction.

If certain individuals fall in love from motives of convenience, they can be contrasted with plenty of others in whom passion seems principally aroused by the intensity of administrative difficulty in procuring its satisfaction.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

You can be rich by having more than you need, or by needing less than you have. —JIM MOTT

You can be rich by having more than you need, or by needing less than you have.

If everything's given, you won't hunger

the purpose of business is to produce happiness, not to pile up money.

What has to happen for you to know that your values are being met or fulfilled?

Because it's about meeting their emotional needs, right? It's not about the money in the end.

We forget what we already have, don

Money is simply a vehicle for trying to meet our needs, and not just our financial needs.

But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.

The end of a novel, like the end of children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum

As man is never strong enough to take unmixed delight in good, so may we presume also that he cannot be quite so weak as to find perfect satisfaction in evil.

Eating is an occupation from which I think a man takes the more pleasure the less he considers it. A rural labourer who sits on the ditch-side with his bread and cheese and an onion has more enjoyment out of it than any Lucullus

That was all there was, and that had not been very bad. During

Who were the happy people that were driven neither by ambition, nor poverty, nor greed, nor the cross purposes of unhappy love, to stifle and trample upon their feelings?