Quotes About Satisfaction

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

All happiness is of a negative rather than positive nature, and for this reason cannot give lasting satisfaction and gratification, but rather only ever a release from a pain or lack, which must be followed either by a new pain or by languor, empty yearning and boredom.

The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]

happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end.

In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.

Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment ... falling asleep, and the unhappiest moment of the unhappy that of his awaking

Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

Caci avutia este ca apa sarata: cu cat bei cu atat ti-e mai este. La fel este si gloria.

La felicidad pertenece a los que bastan a sí mismos.

Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame.

If life – the craving for which is the very essence of our being – were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. But as it is, we take no delight in existence except when we are struggling for something; and then distance and difficulties to be overcome make our goal look as if it would satisfy us.

striving for happiness] is like an unquenchable thirst: we may attain some brief satisfactions, some momentary release, but in the nature of things these can never be more than temporary, and then we are on the rack once more. So unhappiness, or at least dissatisfaction, is our normal state of affairs.

Fulfillment never satisfies, nothing is so fatal to an ideal than its realization.

Money is human happiness in abstracto; consequently he who is no longer capable of happiness in concreto sets his whole heart on money.

The ordinary man places his life's happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the like, so that when he loses them or finds them disappointing, the foundation of his happiness is destroyed. In other words, his center of gravity is not in himself; it is constantly changing its place, with every wish and whim.

En büyük mutluluk, kiÅŸiliktir.

Si poseyera aquello que me falta, sería incapaz de disfrutarlo y me resultaría un estorbo

Avutia este ca apa sarata: cu cat bei cu-atit ti-e mai sete.

Countless numbers of people find themselves in want, simply because, when they had money, they spent it only to get momentary relief from the feeling of boredom which oppressed them.

No man has ever felt perfectly happy in the present; if he had it would have intoxicated him.

The happiest lot is not to have experienced the keenest delights or the greatest pleasures, but to have brought life to a close without any very great pain, bodily or mental.