Quotes About Satisfaction

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?

All we wanted was to go on living like that forever.

Don't think about happiness. If it doesn't come, there's no disappointment; if it does come, it's a surprise.

What you don't have you don't need it now What you don't know you can feel it somehow What you don't have you don't need it now Don't need it now It was a beautiful day.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind (surprises) if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life -- that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living. I pity the man, black or white, who has never experienced the joy and satisfaction that come to one by reason of an effort to assist in making someone else more useful and more happy.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Bezos said. "When I read that letter, I thought, we don't make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make

when given the choice of obsessing over competitors or obsessing over customers, we always obsess over customers

Too much is made of "live every moment to its fullest." It is an unrealistic goal, one that leads to more stress than satisfaction. The secret to fulfillment is not about exciting adventures or living out loud—no one can maintain that kind of pace—but in welcoming and even relishing the quiet and familiar.

No, Father. I lack for nothing. I have my meal cakes and my ale. I have my shadows and my colors. And there is the smell of time passing. I need nothing more.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

If you did not want much, there was plenty

She glanced with satisfaction at the neat swath behind her. The grass lay crisply cut and smelled like a creek bank. The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.

If you did not want so much, there was plenty.

If you did not want much, there was plenty. Keeping a nigger happy these days is like catering to a king. In New York you are your own person. You may reach out and embrace all of Manhattan in sweet aloneness, or you can go to hell if you want to.

If you didn`t want much, there was plenty.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

the cook's art is wasted if it is not consumed. Eating is not destruction; it is culmination.

The horse tires not of hay, the porcuswine will snuffle up his swill greedily unto eternity.