Quotes About Satisfaction

We also planted trees - it became a hobby, for we had discovered what a satisfaction it can be to watch a tree grow and develop. Sometimes a tree will turn out better than any of a man's children, and a tree will endure - its life will outlast our life.

And I was shocked when a high school friend, someone I thought of as a "nice kid," expressed satisfaction at the assassination of Martin Luther King in April 1968.

I was fine with the choice.

because man is a threat to man, human beings seek safety and satisfaction in authority;

We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.

Happiness is being grateful for what you have and having an attitude of gratitude instead of an attitude of envy.

We shall not understand the history of men and of other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied, nor will our successors understand the history of our time unless they fulfill these conditions.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

The things which… are esteemed as the greatest good of all… can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

A good slice of pizza can be as good as a $200 meal in a restaurant.

Por qué lo que no se tiene se desea, y lo que se tiene se desprecia?

probando por algún tiempo la inefable satisfacción que proporciona este eclipse de la personalidad, este verdadero sueño social.

If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Our necessities never equal our wants

Hunger is the best pickle.

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.