Quotes About Satisfaction

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

In India, there is a word that means both "cessation" and "satisfaction" as a single linked concept. The word is nirvana.

Work hard and well and you will have the satisfaction of seeing your project completed. Sometimes others may show appreciation, but that's a bonus, for the major satisfaction comes from within.

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.

Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.

I think that is what you do. Instead of working with the problems you have, you cause yourself more problems by seeking for something else. But there is no need to seek for anything. You have plenty of problems, just enough

Quel est le plus important : réussir ou trouver un sens à votre effort de réussir ?

Enlightenment is not some good feeling or some particular state of mind. The state of mind that exists when you sit in the right posture is, itself, enlightenment. If you cannot be satisfied with the state of mind you have in zazen, it means your mind is still wandering about. Our body and mind should not be wobbling or wandering about. In this posture there is no need to talk about the right state of mind. You already have it. This is the conclusion of Buddhism.

Alcohol is like a batsman, it takes time to set in, but is a delight afterwards

Exceeding your own expectations can often leave things incomplete

Reminiscing success gives more pleasure than the moment itself!!!!

Success is shortlived when accompanied by contentment

Those pleasures so lightly called physical.

If I can't have too many truffles I'll do without.

Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.

Lengsel. Hvad er lengsel igrunnen? tenkte han da han gikk videre. Lengsel. Det tommes hunger efter noget som kan fylle det. Men kan det tomme fylle det tomme? O store ven predikeren, du har for alle tider sagt det som kan sies om alle ting.

Food is just another form of pleasure. It's a sensual experience just like sex.

I'm just trying to keep my customer satisfied.

A little beaver doesn't satisfy you for long.