Quotes About Satisfaction

So that was all love was! That was all a woman was! Good Lord, why do we still hunger even when we are sated? Why so many aspirations and so many disappointments? Why is man's heart so big and life so small? There are days when even the love of the angels would not suffice it, and in a single hour it grows weary of all the caresses of earth.

Emma se sentí satisfeta interiorment creient que havia assolit d'un sol cop aquell rar ideal propi de les existències pàl·lides al qual els cors mediocres no podran arribar mai.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

She had no gowns, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but that. She felt made for that. She would have liked so much to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after.

Umutsuzca mutlulu?u aramak, mutsuzlu?un devam?d?r.

Good enough is good enough. There is time for refinement later. It's not how great you start—it's how great you end up.

Por qué es necesario cautivar? Hay muchos métodos demostrados para ganarse un pavo, un yuan, un euro, un yen, una rupia, un peso o un dracma. Pero cautivar juega en una liga distinta: cuando cautivas a la gente, tu objetivo no es sacarles dinero o hacerles hacer lo que tú quieres, sino llenarlos de una gran satisfacción. He aquí unas cuantas situaciones en las que por encima de todo necesitas cautivar:

He explained that when he had gotten to Toledo, he had a meeting with himself. He said he realized he had become satisfied with being a starting pitcher in the big leagues, and with the money he was making.

A man's satisfaction with his salary depends on whether he makes more than his wife's sister's husband.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved, which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I am, indeed, against all proselyters, whether they be on my side or on some other side. What moves nine-tenths of them, I believe, is simply the certainty of the result that I have just mentioned. Their lofty pretensions are all tosh. The thing they yearn for is the satisfaction of making someone unhappy: that yearning is almost as universal among them as thirst is in dry Congressmen.

Damn it, it wasn't quite fresh enough!

la satisfacción de un momento es la ruina del siguiente.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

Then had her envious heart rest, at least such rest as a heart full of envy and malice ever can have.

The rewards of great living are not external things, withheld until the crowning hour of success arrives; they come by the way, — in the consciousness of growing power and worth, of duties nobly met, and work thoroughly done. To the true artist, working always in humility and sincerity, all life is a reward, and every day brings a deeper satisfaction. Joy and peace are by the way.

Beauty is the promise of happiness . . .

Does sex make life worth living? Didn't you say, the other day, 'Our lives are only as good as our orgasms'?

Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?

You ask about the effect my work has on others. If I may speak ironically, that's a masculine question. Men always want to be influential. I see that somewhat as an onlooker. Do I see myself as influential? No, I want to understand. If others understand in the same way I've understood that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like being among equals.

Toda virtud comienza con el cumplido que se le hace, mediante el cual se expresa la satisfacción por ella.

Dios nos ha hecho para sí, y nuestros corazones nunca encontrarán reposo y satisfacción perfecta hasta que no lo encuentren en Él.

The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.

We are all so luxuriously stupid when things are good in our life.