Quotes About Satisfaction

becoming better off economically seemed to make people less satisfied.

Rapid change makes people very unhappy." The result is what she calls the paradox of frustrated achievers and happy peasants.

richer people were happier than poorer people, but getting richer didn't make a country happier.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

We have become lonely selves in search of purely personal fulfilment. But that surely must be wrong. Life alone is only half a life. One spent pursuing the satisfaction of desire is less than satisfying and never all we desire. So it is worth reminding ourselves that there is such a thing as ethics, and it belongs to the life we live together and the goods we share – the goods that only exist in virtue of being shared.

I missed you even when I was with you. That's been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own character would not have stood firm.

Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

I told him… that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

You learn not to think about what might have been, and to just appreciate what you have.

Later, I'll replay this conversation and be somewhat unsure of what exactly transpired. Is it my forgiveness or his own we've just been negotiating? But at this moment, I felt vaguely satisfied that a rapprochement of sorts has been reached, and a long-raging battle has been ended. I don't like him any more than I did before, but maybe I hate him a little less, and I guess that's something.

Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.

You want more?" she asked a bit breathlessly. "Even after what we did?" His mouth took on a sardonic twist. "I'm afraid quantity usually matters for me . . ." --THE PRINCESS'S ASSASSINS

Soy uno de esos lectores tan bulímicos que se avergüenzan de ello y acogen con alegría cualquier motivo honorable, profesional, por ejemplo, para saciar su vicio

I can celebrate food anytime. I love cheese. When I crave a certain food, I just eat it.

Man does not live by bread alone, but he certainly does not live without the bread.

La felicidad es el estado natural del ser humano. Cuando el pensamiento está en sintonía con la vida, con lo natural, con el momento presente, no existe aburrimiento, sino satisfacción.

Hoy, la forma suprema de placer es la sexual, que para muchos constituye casi una religión. Hay que supeditarlo todo al sexo. La entronización del orgasmo tiene así su máximo cenit. Por

Orden en la cabeza. El que no sabe lo que quiere no puede ser feliz.

You don't need to look for anything. Believe me, your life — the one and only great adventure — is enough." "What a cliché!" I replied.

Horroriza el nivel de ignorancia de este país y, sobre todo, de satisfacción con esa ignorancia. Es un país con mucha inquina y mucha mala leche, de escasa —por no decir nula— categoría moral. Y a mí me parece que si eres mínimamente culto, estás perdido.

other words, she seems to ignore the fact that political participation presupposes access to culture and information, mastery of the tools of reflection, a certain availability of time and, above all, the satisfaction of socially determined needs.