Quotes About Satisfaction

Though the comforts which all creatures desire, and for which he had so often longed, thus fell to his share, the Abbe Birotteau, like the rest of the world, found it difficult, even for a priest, to live without something to hanker for.

We do not attach ourselves permanently to any possessions, excepting in proportion to the trouble, toil and longing which they have cost us.

Why is it that everything I eat when I'm with you is so delicious?' I laughed. 'Could it be that you're satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?

I laughed. "Could it be that you're satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?" "No way, no way, no way!" he said, laughing. "It must be because we're family.

Con tan sólo sonreírnos el uno al otro nos sentíamos satisfechos. Creíamos que aquel momento duraría toda la eternidad.

Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess.

O ser humano tem quatro necessidades básicas: comida, dormir, sexo e vingança .

Ghar ki murg; dal barabar.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

hot breakfast on a cold winter morning

People ask me: why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do? The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry. —M. F. K. Fisher

Because we cannot stand the God-shaped hole inside of us, we try stuffing it full of all sorts of thing, but only God may fill.

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

You don't seem it." "I am happy." "But you've just given me all the reasons I don't need to have

When we don't have something in our lives, we tell ourselves that we don't need it, that we don't want it—because the alternative is aching for it, which breeds a sense of loss. So, we remove it from the picture we make of our lives. What we don't see, we don't miss.

From heartache came strength, from strength, satisfaction.

I haven't done anything as rewarding as this since I passed the bar. It was the best, Roger. I totally know what you mean about feeling good when you help people. I would represent one person like Lee any day over the jackasses I've been working with for the last seven years!

When we don't have something in our lives, we tell ourselves that we don't need it, that we don't want it—because the alternative is aching for it, which breeds a sense of loss. So, we remove it from the picture we make of our lives. What we don't see, we don't miss. Then, as Paul said, something happens

What about me, Peter?" "You can cook. You can clean. You can be waiting here for me when I get home. I'd think that would be enough." "Well, it's not!

IDENTIFY THOSE THINGS THAT DEEPLY ENGROSS YOU, THAT MAKE YOU FEEL COMPLETE, THAT MAKE YOU FEEL AS THOUGH NOTHING IS MISSING

It's hard to attain that "nothing-missing" feeling on a steady diet of television.

Not all of us need to spend every second of our lives trying to get somewhere other than where we are. Not all of us have to grab the brass ring on the carousel. Some of us just like to go around and enjoy the ride.

I have so much, and yet I'm still not happy.

How devastating it is to be thought of as arrogant. Surely, we have known each other long enough and well enough, for her to understand that my silence only reflects my sense of trust and satisfaction.