Quotes About Satisfaction

You would be amazed at what you can give up, lose or break and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

I wish I had a tray table in my bedroom and I wish I smoked, just so I could extinguish my smoking materials

Like somebody who was just happy because there was macaroni and cheese in the world.

the one thing that will finally make you feel you aren't missing something essential, such as the point.

He smiled like a cat with fresh chipmunk blood on his whiskers.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

There was a great satisfaction to be found in the food which we need and obtain by our own hand.

Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.

and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.

I want to drink. I want a woman like you. I want to go down, as far as you can drag me.

She found a dark satisfaction in pain—because that pain came from him.

Each of us has our own idea of what Cheese is, and we pursue it because we believe it makes us happy. If we get it, we often become attached to it. And if we lose it, or it's taken away, it can be traumatic. The

The satisfaction with which you parade your proof of the lottery origin of human nature is not pure. It is, besides the joy of knowledge, a pleasure in befouling that which others consider lovely and hold dear.

No confiéis en aquellos de vosotros que consideran que única y simplemente anheláis la inmortalidad, porque aunque estén diciendo la verdad, no es esta sino superficial e incompleta. La inmortalidad del individuo no os saciaría. Siempre exigís más, aunque no seáis capaces de denominar el objeto de vuestro deseo.

Non sarà mai felice, - diceva - la felicità è come l'acqua. Non arriva in un momento, bisogna trovarla, preparare la pompa, fare un pozzetto, mettere le tubature e i rubinetti, Dopo che te la sei conuistata con fatica, allora la poi bere.

Il mondo si divide in: quelli che mangiano il cioccolato senza pane; quelli che non riescono a mangiare il cioccolato se non mangiano anche il pane; quelli che non hanno il cioccolato; quelli che non hanno il pane. (Dai detti celebri di nonno Socrate)

But working women with retired husbands tend to be more dissatisfied with their marriages than any other type of wife.39

Several studies show that it is a woman's degree of satisfaction with either the housewife role or paid work, and the continuity of her work experience when she does work, that best correlates with positive outcomes in her children.

Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable

That's the trouble with happy endings," he told me after the funeral. "You just live on and on, until you've sucked all the juice out, and it turns out not to be so happy after all.

You know you will get what you need, if not necessarily what you ask for.

You suffer when you crave something different from the here and now. So, stop craving.

The triumph of my logic gives me no pleasure.