Quotes About Satisfaction

My life is full, and I love it. Acting is the frosting on the cake for me.

I like chocolate. I don't eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

Through love all that is bitter will be sweet.

I love what I'm doing for a living.

Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn't it?

There must be more to life than having everything.

She could have lived in comfort, but I doubt if it occurred to her to try.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which was the order in which people optimally satisfied different types of desires (food-safety-love-status-enlightenment).

It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't. The future doesn't exist. The past does.

Why did she marry you?" "I think she was fatigued by my importunities. She was not very strong. But it may be that she married me out of pique. She never told me. I did not inquire." "Yet you were very happy with her?" "While she lived, I was ideally happy.

El hambre es la mejor salsa." Hunger is the best sauce!

I took pleasure in every moment that was in any real sense pleasurable. I didn't turn somersaults, I didn't sing, but there were certain things that I, too, enjoyed.

If they wanted less, they'd go home with more", he would say. That was his own axiom on greed.

One excellent way to reinforce the 'ending' feeling is to rig up some kind of reward for yourself.

You don't have to live with a dehydrated heart. Receive Christ's work on the Cross, the energy of his Spirit, his lordship over your life, his unending, unfailing love. Drink deeply and often. And out of you will flow rivers of living water. from Come Thirsty

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength. (Phil. 4:11–13 NIV)

What you have in your Shepherd is greater than what you don't have in life.

Who can satisfy Madison Avenue? No one can. For that reason Jesus warns, "Be careful and guard against all kinds of greed" (Luke 12:15). from Cure for the Common Life

Content. That's the word. A state of heart in which you would be at peace if God gave you nothing more than he already has.

In 1900 the average person living in the United States wanted seventy-two different things and considered eighteen of them essential. Today the average person wants five hundred things and considers one hundred of them essential.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

He motions for you to lean forward. "I have a secret to tell you," he whispers, "the secret of satisfaction. 'The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want'" (Ps. 23: 1 NKJV). David has found the pasture where discontent goes to die. It's as if he is saying, "What I have in God is greater than what I don't have in life.