Quotes About Satisfaction

I love good food. For me, that means lots of green juice, salad, and good dark chocolate.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living.

I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.

Lo que pasa es que, cuando llevas un tiempo casado, cada vez te cuesta más perderte en el sexo como antes. Es porque te has vuelto demasiado eficiente, has aprendido lo que funciona y lo que no, por lo que los juegos preliminares, el acto y el orgasmo se pueden condensar en un periodo de cinco a siete minutos. El buen sexo requiere de muchas cosas diferentes, pero en la mayoría de los casos, la eficiencia no es una de ellas.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

A woman I knew just drowned herself The well was deep and muddy She was just shaking off futility Or punishing somebody My friends were calling up all day yesterday All emotions and abstractions It seems we all live so close to that line and so far from satisfaction

Perhaps happiness is always to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak. Much of happiness is hope, no

How much leisure, enjoyment, and reward do you require, so that you feel like more than a beast of burden?

Quizá la felicidad se encuentra en el viaje de subida y no en el efímero sentimiento de satisfacción que aguarda en la próxima cumbre. Una gran parte de la felicidad está compuesta de esperanza, por muy profundo que fuera el submundo en el que dicha esperanza se f

Meaning gratifies all impulses, now and forever.

Even when satisfied, temporarily, we remain curious. We live within a framework that defines the present as eternally lacking and the future as eternally better. If we did not see things this way, we would not act at all. We wouldn't even be able to see, because to see we must focus, and to focus we must pick one thing above all else on which to focus.

Nos costó mucho entender que frustrando un placer particular se podía obtener un provecho, ya que algo así se opone frontalmente a nuestros instintos animales más fundamentales, que exigen una satisfacción inmediata, sobre todo en los inevitables períodos de carestía.

To have meaning in your life is better than to have what you want, because you may neither know what you want, nor what you truly need.

La tragedia del Ser consciente de sí mismo genera sufrimiento, un sufrimiento inevitable que a su vez causa el deseo de una satisfacción egoísta e inmediata, es decir, el deseo de aquello que resulta conveniente.

We can imagine new ways that things could be set right, and improved, even if we have everything we thought we needed. Even when satisfied, temporarily, we remain curious. We live within a framework that defines the present as eternally lacking and the future as eternally better. If we did not see things this way, we would not act at all.

Perhaps happiness is always to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak.

Discipline and transformation will nonetheless lead you inexorably forward. With will and luck, you will find a story that is meaningful and productive, improves itself with time, and perhaps even provides you with more than a few moments of satisfaction and joy. With will and luck, you will be the hero of that story, the disciplined sojourner, the creative transformer, and the benefactor of your family and broader society. Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that.

Imagine that you're unhappy. You're not getting what you need. Perversely, this may be because of what you want. You are blind, because of what you desire. Perhaps what you really need is right in front of your eyes, but you cannot see it because of what you are currently aiming for.

I smelled the cinnamon, and I imagined myself full of white light. I think I felt something. Something more than the desire for a piece of toast—though that was there, too.

One of the great joys of mathematics is the incontrovertible feeling that you've understood something the right way, all the way down to the bottom; it's a feeling I haven't experienced in any other sphere of mental life. And when you know how to do something the right way, it's hard-for some stubborn people, impossible-to make yourself explain it the wrong way.

Si tu marido quiere dormir, no le presiones ni estimules la intimidad. Si es él quien te pide la unión, accede humildemente teniendo en cuenta que su satisfacción es más importante que la de la mujer. Si las prácticas sexuales que te demanda son inusuales, sé obediente y no te quejes. En el momento culminante, un pequeño gemido por tu parte es suficiente para indicar cualquier goce que hayas podido experimentar».

I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, 'Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'