Quotes About Satisfaction

Winning the World Series, winning the MVP, you feel like you have everything.

We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

In the case of 'Walk Between Worlds,' I'm happy to say that it was one of those records that when we were working on it, we would go home at the end of the day with smiles on our faces. We felt it was good work and every song we worked on, they seemed to connect.

I've worn my share of dresses and heels in my career. It's easy. It's not very challenging. It's not fulfilling.

The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.

The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.

I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn't have to worry about going out in bad weather. I could stay up late.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying about whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened. As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.

The greatest luxury now in being reasonably well-off - overlooking the Ferrari and the aeroplane - is that I can always go for a curry without worrying if I can afford it.

Everybody likes to drink a Coke once in a while; it's when we run out of everything else to drink and we're only left with Coke that we need to start worrying.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.