Quotes About Satisfaction

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

Ah, let a man beware, when his wishes, fulfilled, rain down upon him, and his happiness is unbounded.

She got very tired, so tired that even her toys could no longer amuse her. You would wonder at that if I had time to describe to you one half of the toys she had. But then, you wouldn't have the toys themselves, and that makes all the difference: you can't get tired of a thing before you have it.

it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

Those who are content with what they are, have the less concern about what they seem.

Then we're all happy." "That we are indeed!" answered the princess, sobbing.

So there was but one way of setting matters right, as Mr Malison had generosity enough left in him to perceive; and that was, to make a friend of his adversary. Indeed there is that in the depths of every human breast which makes a reconciliation the only victory that can give true satisfaction.

For our Selves will always do pretty well if we don't pay them too much attention. Our Selves are like some little children who will be happy enough so long as they are left to their own games, but when we begin to interfere with them, and make them presents of too nice playthings, or too many sweet things, they begin at once to fret and spoil.

But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

35]              Caelum non animum mutant The man who is not content where he is, would never have been content somewhere else, though he might have complained less. Donal Grant, ch. 31

Happily for our blessedness, the joy of possession soon palls.

To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power.

Nothing is so ruinous to progress in which effort is needed, as satisfaction with apparent achievement. It always stops momentum.

God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy.

The right teacher would have his pupil easy to please, but ill to satisfy; ready to enjoy, unready to embrace; keen to discover beauty, slow to say, Here I will dwell.

things may be very different from what we have been taught, or what we may of ourselves desire; but every difference will be the step of an ascending stair—each nearer and nearer to the divine perfection which alone can satisfy the children of a God, alone supply the poorest of their cravings.

Oh, the holy satisfaction of the godly—when it comes to delight in cruelty I'm just a child compared to them

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

It was a life that wore you out, used up every ounce of your energy, and kept you profoundly, unquestionably happy. In the literal sense of the word, it stupefied you. The long days in the fields, the coarse food and insufficient sleep, the smell of hops and wood smoke, lulled you into an almost beastlike heaviness. Your wits seemed to thicken, just as your skin did, in the rain and sunshine and perpetual fresh air.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. – George Orwell

With a faint feeling of satisfaction Winston laid the fourth message aside. It was an intricate and responsible

He seemed to have lost the power of intellectual effort, now that the stimulus of pain had been removed. He was not bored, he had no desire for conversation or distraction. Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was completely satisfying. By degrees he came to spend less time in sleep, but he still felt no impulse to get off the bed.