Quotes About Satisfaction

Maybe being numb to the mediocrity of one's life is the price people pay for true happiness. Maybe bliss blinds a person to the fact that they could be something more than normal. Maybe if everyone grew up in happy houses with happy lives void of pain, we'd still be living in caves and beating animals to death with a club to eat.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, faut aimer ce que l'on a.

Uno degli obiettivi del sistema [attuale] è di creare bisogni da soddisfare producendo nuovi beni a titolo di riparazione, compensazione o consolazione

Uno degli obiettivi del sitema [attuale] è di creare bisogni da soddisfare producendo nuovi beni a titolo di riparazione, compensazione o consolazione

I had never felt such happiness, not with one man or two or three, never felt this feeling before...this feeling of...completeness? Yes, that was it, completeness! I simply didn't need anyone else.

To receive man's recognition, you will have to abide by man's rules. And man's recognition might lead you to success, but it will never lead you to satisfaction. Satisfaction comes only from being recognized by God.

The Curse of Restlessness that can lead from one trip to the next, one job to the next, or one relationship to the next, can be transformed by a sense of contentment. An abiding peace can grow — a peace that comes from living your calling in the world.

All kingdom journeys have an end, as do all journeys in life. Ultimately, we will have to ask ourselves if we are satisfied with how we've lived. Did we invest our life the way we or God wanted? Did we live well?

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?

Prolonging death was akin to prolonging an orgasm. The closer you could bring the victim to the finish line without crossing it, the better it

And though we have all the comforts of the world, we find no comfort in them.

Try telling a starving vampire to control himself when there's warm blood on his lips. You'd have as much luck telling a burning man not to scream.

vorrei che la mia collezione fosse più vasta, per piacere vostro e per soddisfazione mia personale, ma sono un gran pigrone e, benchè non abbia molti libri, ne ho sempre più di quanti riesca a leggere.

I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. —Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning April 1st, 1838

At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that something might be.

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.

Nevertheless, she likes it,

All that effort," he mused, "merely to avoid me. How gratifying.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.