Quotes About Satisfaction

The human eye loves to rest upon wide expanses of pure colour: the moors in the purple heyday of the heather, miles of green downland, and the sea when it lies calm and blue and boundless, all delight it; but to some none of these, lovely though they all are, can give the same satisfaction of spirit as acres upon acres of golden corn. There is both beauty and bread and the seeds of bread for future generations.

La gente era más pobre entonces y carecía de las comodidades, las diversiones y los conocimientos que tenemos hoy en día; y a pesar de todo, eran más felices. Lo que parece sugerir que la felicidad depende en mayor medida del estado de la mente —y quizás del cuerpo— que de las circunstancias y eventos que nos rodean.

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

When man can "wish without worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.

We cannot prevent the existence of unsatisfied desires in the hearts of men. We cannot satisfy these desires except by labor. We cannot deny the fact that man has as much repugnance for labor as he has satisfaction with its results. Since man has such characteristics, we cannot prevent the existence of a constant tendency among men to obtain their part of the enjoyments of life while throwing upon others, by force or by trickery, the burdens of labor.

Man does not live upon nominal values, but upon real products, and the more products there are, whatever be their price, the richer he is.

Neviens rekl?mas p?rst?vis nev?las j?su laimi, jo laim?gi cilv?ki nav pat?r?t?ji.

een drang die me op zulke momenten overvalt, maar waarvoor ik nooit bezwijk. De gedachte eraan bevredigt me. Ik ben een futloze avonturier, een krachteloze romanticus, een besluiteloze lafaard, een schijterige deserteur. Ik hou alleen van een valse start.

El hombre es un animal insatisfecho que se debate entre varias frustraciones.

No se puede desear lo que se tiene, es antinatural.

One can't have everything in this world; be content with the greatest of joys: health.

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

Il ne songeait pas à prolonger son bonheur jusqu'aux confins de cette nuit pesante. Toutes les étoiles ne lui eussent servi de rien, ni l'odeur des acacias. La nuit d'été battait en vain ce jeune mâle bien armé, sûr de sa force, à cette minute, sûr de son corps, indifférent à ce que le corps ne peut pas posséder.

El defecto de que tú me hubieras curado, si me hubieses querido, era el de no colocar nada por encima del beneficio inmediato, de ser incapaz de dejar la pequeña y mediocre presa de los honorarios por la sombra del poder, porque no hay sombra sin realidad; la misma sombra es una realidad. Pero, ¡bah! Yo no tenía más que el consuelo de «ganar mucho», como el tendero de la esquina.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That's not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it's because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, "When you love life, you go to the movies," it's false! It's exactly the opposite: when you don't love life, or when life doesn't give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

happiness is a different thing altogether. If you try to achieve it, you have every chance of failing. And besides, how would you ever know that you'd achieved it? Of course one can't blame people, especially unhappy people, for wanting to be happier and setting themselves goals in order to try to escape from their unhappiness.

Did the squirrel realize how lucky he was to be there? Or on the contrary did he spend his life wondering whether he might not be better off somewhere else, or feeling that he didn't have the life he deserved? In the end, it depended on the comparisons the squirrel was able to make

Lesson no. 1: Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

The old monk said, 'The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!' And

by adding together these three differences - between what we have and what we'd like to have, what we have now and the best of what we've had in the past, and what we have and what other people have - you get an average difference which is closely related to happiness. The smaller the difference, the happier we are.