Quotes About Satisfaction

Until an effort is made to satisfy that wish, the sense of uneasy waiting for something to start which has not started will remain to disturb the peace of the soul.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.

The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory.

He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart.

He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart. No one had really lived until they had achieved that synthesis of love and desire which he had never dreamed existed until he came to Lys. He

No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time.

No Utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart. Jan

The cause of suffering is desire

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

The work is its own reward

My profession is its own reward

me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.

Gera smiled in satisfaction. "The trick to wearing perfume correctly is to only apply enough that if someone else can smell it, they'd better be intimate with you. A fragrance should never linger without you in an area after you've left it. Rather it should be a subtle reminder that only stays on your pillow or clothes, and only when your lover's face is buried in them." That

And for the glorious honor of being bitched at constantly and the esteemed title of Claims Investigator, he'd given up five years of his life as he went to college, created a debt his great-grandkids would curse him over, and got the holy honor of MBA. More Bullshit Allowed. (Zeke)

Gossip, I have discovered, is seldom spread about people who find happiness or contentment.

Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.

if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you have.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

If it makes you happy, then why are you so sad?

The satisfaction to Christian in withholding compassion from Caro had sprung directly from her need, her poverty.

Although she would sooner have given up thinking than eating, she resented being pushed into depriving herself of either.

I dined upon a bird, and radishes from the garden, and homemade plum jam.