Quotes About Satisfaction

piece of advice from Patrul Rinpoche: Remember the example of an old cow, She's content to sleep in a barn. You have to eat, sleep, and shit— That's unavoidable— Beyond that is none of your business.

I believe from the bottom of my heart that what we call religion is the very most important matter for human beings. I cannot stress enough that the ultimate goal of religion, whether we call it satori or peace of mind, is for each individual to live in peace and tranquility, to live a full and satisfying life.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

The quest for power is strange in that, once the quest has begun, the destination always seems to shift ever further away. What power one has is never enough; whatever happiness one had turns to bitterness.

The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

Food makes people happy, it takes you back home, it says so many things that words can't say.

Like having a can of Coke after a long and thirsty game of tennis. Tastes better than any other can of Coke you've ever had. Marriage, by contrast, is like starting with a fizzy can of Coke and waiting around while it gets flatter and flatter.

Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.

Sin is the result of deep and unmet needs.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why, thought Milligan, this very moment might be the happiest in me life. The very thought of it made him miserable.

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

My meditation Is my heart's God-Perfection-Satisfaction-song

Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction. Transformation of life is the culmination of divine satisfaction

You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.

Your desire for pleasure or happiness makes you unhappy.

In joy there is neither desire nor ambition. Ambition promises joy somewhere in the future. It creates a mirage of joy and leaves frustration in your hands.

What can suffice the man whom virtue and felicity do not suffice? For surely virtue comprehends all things we need do, felicity all things we need wish for.

For there is an attractiveness in beautiful bodies, in gold and silver, and all things; and in bodily touch, sympathy hath much influence, and each other sense hath his proper object answerably tempered.

For if we were beasts, we should love the fleshly and sensual life, and this would be our sufficient good; and when it was well with us in respect of it, we should seek nothing beyond.

In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.