Quotes About Satisfaction

I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist. It's the thinking of a toddler.

Can I say this in a humble way - I don't need the money. If I stop coaching today at Kentucky, my toes are up, and I'm eating Cheetos, and I'm fine.

I never settled because I wasn't meant to pack toilet rolls or stack shelves.

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

My back hurts real bad, every day. All those bumps took their toll. But life is good and I wouldn't have it any other way.

There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

I enjoyed doing the 'Tom and Jerry' cartoons, and if we had never done anything else, I would have been perfectly satisfied.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

In my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million," wrote Sam Polk in the New York Times, "and I was angry because it wasn't big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted." Polk

Multiple experiments have demonstrated that—above a certain amount for comfort—more money does not make those who have it happier. Instead, it often leaves them feeling unfulfilled and ratchets up their stress.

Decide early on what your puppy needs in order to feel included and satisfied in each situation (a bone, a mat, a 15-minute game of Toss after a nap), and insist on only the behavior you've outlined.

I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.

He found the job satisfying, as if by creating orderliness in one corner of the library he could restore a sense of order in the world at large.

But it felt so good, I kept doing it.

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I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

All her life she had longed to breach that pale and hazy boundary between enough and plenty.

I don't want to marry you. I just want you to give me an orgasm." "Just the one? You have low expectations.

No podías tener todo lo que querías, pero, si eras afortunada, tenías las cosas que importaban.

There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness... I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to it, and put all one's heart into it.

There is all the pleasure that one can have in golddigging in finding one's hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.