Quotes About Satisfaction

Fixating on wants and needs, which consumerism encourages us to do, promotes a psychological state of endless craving.

When someone has not known love it is difficult for him to trust that mutual satisfaction and growth can be the primary foundation in a coupling relationship.

Of course the truth of men's lives is that patriarchal sexuality has not satisfied. It has fueled the compulsive need to be more sexual, to be more violent in the hopes that there is a way to be more satisfied.

Proverbs 11:9: Evil words destroy one's friends; wise discernment rescues the godly. Proverbs 11:12: It is foolish to belittle a neighbor; a person with good sense remains silent. Proverbs 11:25: The generous prosper and are satisfied; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." Chesterton's rejoinder? "Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything.

Are you selling something?" "Only happiness.

The Lord Uhtred sought to annoy you, bishop, the king said, and it is best not to give him the satisfaction of showing that he has succeeded.

In breve, eravamo soddisfatti, e il destino è sempre stato nemico della soddisfazione. Il destino inoltre, come mi aveva sempre detto Merlino, è inesorabile.

ground, then drank some and fancied it

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

Ricordo che la sera che ci siamo conosciuti lei disse che qui sperava di fare un uso migliore della sua vita. C'è riuscito?» «È quello che si dovrebbe sempre fare». «Mi dica, che cosa vuole dalla vita?» «Ordine, valore, soddisfazione, amore», disse Levin. «L'amore all'ultimo posto?» «L'amore in ogni momento».

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

But when love already keeps you warm, then there's no need to look for pleasure anywhere else.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? The reason is clearly that the human heart as modern civilisation has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied, because it feels deply, perhaps even unconsciously, that it has somehow missed the meaning of life, that perhaps others, but not we ourselves, have secured the good things which nature offers man's enjoyment.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

marriage is likely to be what is called happy if niether party ever expected to get much happiness out of it

He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

The typical unhappy man is one who, having been deprived in youth of some normal satisfaction, has come to value this one kind of satisfaction more than any other, and has therefore given to his life a one-sided direction, together with a quite undue emphasis upon the achievement as opposed to the activities connected with it.