Quotes About Satisfaction

choose less and feel better.

Happiness as a goal is a recipe for disaster.

The existence of multiple alternatives makes it easy for us to imagine alternatives that don't exist—alternatives that combine the attractive features of the ones that do exist. And to the extent that we engage our imaginations in this way, we will be even less satisfied with the alternative we end up choosing. So, once again, a greater variety of choices actually makes us feel worse.

We get what we say we want, only to discover that what we want doesn't satisfy us to the degree that we expect.

If you seek and accept only the best, you are a maximizer.

Knowing what's good enough requires knowing yourself and what you care about. So: Think about occasions in life when you settle, comfortably, for "good enough"; Scrutinize how you choose in those areas; Then apply that strategy more broadly.

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.

But that sacred hunger we spoke of justifies all.

The pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.

Poverty wants few things, avarice everything.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

You already own what you think you need.

Don't need what you want. Want what you need.

Desire of pleasure binds us to the present.

I'm very choosy when it comes to work. It's not like whatever comes my way, I will agree to do it. But if I'm getting good money and exposure and if the content is satisfying, what's the harm in doing it, even if it's yet another reality show?

A little while ago, I had this realization that so much of my happiness depended on what my career was looking like at that time, and that's, like, death of happiness right there.

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

I was always the kid who wanted Christmas to not come, because I realized at a pretty early age that no matter what you got, there's always a little bit of a letdown. It's like, 'Oh, gee, I wanted two ponies, not one.'

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

I would say that I love pizza so much that sometimes I eat pizza while I'm eating pizza. Like, I'm so content with myself with how it's going that I'm like, 'I should do this more,' not realizing that the mouth is full. I'm just cramming pizza into my mouth.

You get to a point where you start realizing that what you've done is amazing and you're proud of it, but there's so much more to accomplish. So many projects get to a certain level and they become content, and that's all that they ever expected or wanted.

It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

There is no reason not to be happy at Chelsea.