Quotes About Satisfaction

That some repent no one can doubt; but I am inclined to believe that most men and women take their lots as they find them, marrying as the birds do by force of nature, and going on with their mates with a general, though not perhaps an undisturbed satisfaction, feeling inwardly assured that Providence, if it have not done the very best for them, has done for them as well as they could do for themselves with all the thought in the world.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

She was dark, thin, healthy, good-looking, clever, ambitious, rich, unsatisfied, perhaps unscrupulous — but not without a conscience.

Mr Alf never made enemies, for he praised no one, and, as far as the expression of his newspaper went, was satisfied with nothing.

Every work is great when it is in exact measure. A work that exceeds its proper limits is the least of all. We have said repeatedly that your work, your proper work, is unique; another man's work is equally so, do not interchange with him. You alone can do well what is laid upon you; you would do badly what your neighbor will do well. God is satisfied in all.

Uno se hace lector para completar lo inacabado. Para completarse

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

Six paradoxes of Mature Socialism: 1) There's no unemployment, but no one works; 2) no one works, but productivity goes up; 3) productivity goes up, but stores are empty; 4) stores are empty, but fridges are full; 5) fridges are full, but no one is satisfied; 6) no one is satisfied, but everyone votes yes.

It is not a good feeling being right about something you have suspected when you finally gain undeniable confirmation that it's true. It is not the satisfying sensation of everything slipping into place for which you have yearned. It's more like, Oh, right.

One's country is wherever one does well. Où l'on est bien, là est la patrie.

Le bonheur est à ceux qui se suffisent à eux-mêmes.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Happiness then, is found to be something perfect and self sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Het geluk behoort toe aan de tevredenen

The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant . . . Hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is craving for them, for appetite involves pain.

And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat; and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!

And the avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end; for it is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Happiness belongs to those who suffice themselves.

Loyal, happy employees are engaged employees—and engaged employees are profitable employees

A half-hour conversation with Binky was like eating a Whitman Sampler in one sitting.

People are never satisfied. They crave too much then complain too much.

Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn't content till it perspires. And then, too often, when it feels the perspiration on its brow, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, without even putting itself to the trouble of saying, I've had enough of this.