Quotes About Satisfaction

Appetite comes with eating… but the thirst goes away with drinking.

Losers [...] gain psychic satisfaction from belonging to a winning cause.

La muerte es el fin de toda angustia, el más tranquilo sueño, el eterno descanso. El que ha gozado debe retirarse de la vida como huésped satisfecho; el que ha sufrido, recibir gustoso a la que viene a cortar el hilo de sus desaventuras. [pp.150]

Los budistas tienen una fórmula para la felicidad que va en sentido contrario: FELICIDAD = REALIDAD – DESEOS

Es decir, si eres feliz con lo que tienes en tu vida y no deseas nada que no poseas ahora mismo, serás más feliz que alguien que tiene mucho más que tú, pero sigue deseando cosas que no posee.

encuentra la felicidad en lo que ya tiene, mientras que el niño la busca en lo que le falta. ¿Cómo elegir tu camino entre tantas opciones?

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

but I had learned over the years that if you're not happy doing what you're doing, then you shouldn't be doing it.

I don't have many sad days.

I have never known anyone to accept Christ's redemption and later regret it.

Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul was made for God. Don't starve your soul.

Nothing seems to satisfy. Not politics, not education, not material goods. Some who refuse to turn their hearts toward God have created the New Age movement, with all of its aberrations. This is actually not new but only the latest attempt by man to place something other than Christ inside himself in a futile attempt to satisfy spiritual longings.

When our hearts are surrendered totally to the will of God, then we delight in seeing Him use us in any way He pleases. Our plans and desires begin to agree with His, and we accept His direction in our lives. Our sense of joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment in life increases, no matter what the circumstances, if we are in the center of God's will.

Delighting in the Lord alters the desires.

This "I" was made in the image of God for fellowship with God. Without God it is miserable, empty, confused, and frustrated. Without God life has no meaning; but with God at its center there is life, an inner strength and peace, a deep satisfaction, an unfading joy known only to those who know Jesus Christ.

As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.

We often seek to please ourselves first, instead of God. What is interesting is that when we seek to please God first, very often we discover that we end up far more pleased than we did when we put ourselves first.

We cannot be satisfied with our goodness after beholding the holiness of God.

We can't fathom what God has in store for us when He makes all creation new. Believe it by faith and share with those who still doubt that they, too, can be perfected in Heaven by turning to Christ and abandoning their unobtainable satisfaction on earth.

Many people turn to alcohol to try to drown the [cries] and longings of the soul. Others attempt to quiet the longings of their souls in other ways. Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul is made for God.

Don't be satisfied with anything less than His will for you—for His will is always best.

Volumes could be written on the problem of [drug] addiction. Millions of barbiturates are swallowed every night to help the nation sleep. Millions of tranquilizers keep us calm during the day. Millions of pep pills wake us up in the morning. The Bible warns that these flights from reality bring no lasting satisfaction.