Quotes About Satisfaction

Good days can last a long time if one tends to things with care and caution; all sensible people know that. That's why I think that sensible people have to be satisfied with the good days – for the grandest of days are costly indeed.

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

Power and shekels are no guarantee of personal satisfaction. As you attempt to claw your way to the top, do not lose sight of your psychological needs. Make choices that bring you satisfaction and joy. (…) If being top dog makes you happy, then have at it. Live your truth. For everyone else I say this: be wary of jeopardizing your peace of mind in the pursuit of status, money, or power. Needlepoint that!

The validity of the cook's work is to be found only in the mouths of those at her table; she needs their approbation, demands that they appreciate her dishes and call for second helpings; she is upset if they are not hungry, to the point that one wonders whether the fried potatoes are for her husband or her husband for the fried potatoes.

If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Man's great affliction, which begins with infancy and accompanies him till death, is that looking and eating are two different operations. Eternal beatitude is a state where to look is to eat.

Man requires, not rice or potatoes, but food; not wood or coal, but heating. In the same way, for the needs of the soul, we must recognize the different, but equivalent, sorts of satisfaction which cater for the same requirements.

Leggo, per quanto è possibile, soltanto ciò di cui ho fame, nel momento in cui ne ho fame, e allora non leggo: mi nutro.

Karn?m?z doymad?kça ekmeÄŸe inan?yor olmam?z beyhude ve faydas?z.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

I'm not sure that I shall. I'm trying to develop my own large capacity for dullness and contentment. I've failed at every positive thing I've tried. I'd better 'settle down,' as they call it, and be satisfied to be—nothing.

A loaf of bread and a clean collar; what does man want more?

count no man happy until he be dead.

for a life that is rich, beautiful, soul satisfying, uplifting, and authentic instead of one that beats them down.

Our farmers make enough rice to feed all of us, yet we must eat millet and barley. All that rice goes to feed the Imperial soldiers sent the Japanese residents...some even gets sent back to Japan...and the prices they charge us for the little rice that remains! Did you see the look of satisfaction on Captain Narita's face as he looked at these coarse little cookies?

There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them.

Il lavoro è sicuramente una delle cose più importanti della vita, e dovrebbe essere adatto a te. Lo stipendio non è tutto.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

I pleasure those whom I would liefest please.

It's little I ask, and get still less, but quite enough for me.

Who would choose uneasy dreams to don a crown when all the kingly sway can be enjoyed without?

I know I please where I must please the most.

Blest, they are the truly blest who all their lives have never tasted devastation.

It's little I ask for, and still less I get, yet it is enough for me.