Quotes About Satisfaction

Contentment is not mastering circumstances but faith in God.

The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.

In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of His Son. Beware you do not get stuck in the work itself; if you do, it is all lost labor. Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul. Therefore, fix on Him in all, through all, and above all...Remember also to use all means as means-as ordained, not for their own sake...

and as he walked slowly through the evening, breathing the fragrance and tasting upon his tongue the sharp night-time air, it seemed to him that the moment he walked in was enough and that he might not need a great deal more.

He wondered how many other people were lucky enough to have an entire universe of need satisfied by one blond-haired man.

once we had developed intelligence we weren't satisfied with the world as we found it;

Rosie Tanguay could take the studies and shove them right up her skinny behind. Bev knew why she smoked. She smoked for the same reason she ate: it gave her something to look forward to. It was as simple as that.

the Cup That Cheers

Can't you see that it doesn't matter what the world thinks if you've done your work the best you knew how to do?

We have everything we need right here.

Eating The Bones by Ellen Bass The women in my family strip the succulent flesh from broiled chicken, scrape the drumstick clean; bite off the cartilage chew the gristle, crush the porous swellings at the ends of each slender baton. With strong molars they split the tibia, sucking out the dense marrow. They use up love, they swallow every dark grain, so at the end there's nothing left, a scant pile of splinters on the empty white plate.

To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring.

By resting content with small blessings, we disqualify ourselves for receiving the Spirit in ... unlimited fullness. We

The benefit you derive from your food does not depend so much on the quantity eaten, as on its thorough digestion, nor the gratification of the taste so much on the amount of food swallowed as on the length of time it remains in the mouth.-- R.

He who demands little gets it.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

If you don't know where you are going, you keep doing something because you enjoy it. You keep doing it, making choices, and noticing the consequences until it's pleasing to you and you want to stop.

the promise of a big payoff diminishes our appreciation of the present situation

I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity" -Luna Maxwell

I want a relationship i can finally sink my teeth into

I just want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into

He will be your Shaddai—your strength and satisfaction.

la vida se reduce a comer bien y saber pasar el tiempo entre comidas.

But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:14 NKJV).