Quotes About Satisfaction

Satisfying needs is the burden of the poor. The wealthy and the powerful can afford to indulge their wants and whims.

There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course.

And my dreams of adventure are complete," Sidekick said. "I'm luggage.

Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, 'This is good. This is what I wanted,' and gone home?

Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life.

Not having ice cream," she proclaimed, "is the culmination of all disasters!

Fine," Navani said. "I hope when you die—knowing your homeland is doomed, your families enslaved, your queen executed—you feel satisfied knowing that at least you maintained a slight market advantage.

This is a lot more satisfying," he said, "when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt with attention for my clever verbosity." The ugly lizard-crab-thing on the next rock over clicked its claw, an almost hesitant sound. "Your right, of course," Wit said. "My usual audience isn't particularly intelligent. That was also the obvious joke, however, so shame on you.

Vin closed her eyes, simply feeling the warmth of being held. And realized that was all she had ever really wanted.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

I doubt any dragon ever had it so good anyway.

When has any man ever been content with what he has? When has any tyrant said to himself, 'This is enough'?

Once we have our atium, we'll be happy." "Not to mention rich," Ham added. "The two words are synonyms, Hammond," Breeze said.

Fame is like a cheeseburger. It might not be the best or most healthy thing to have, but it will still fill you up. You don't really care how healthy something is when you've been without it for so long. Like a cheeseburger, fame fills a need, and it tastes so good going down. It isn't until years later that you realize what it has done to your heart.

The pact between Preservation and Ruin is a thing of gods, and difficult to explain in human terms. Indeed, initially, there was a stalemate between them. On one hand, each knew that only by working together could they create. On the other hand, both knew that they would never have complete satisfaction in what they created. Preservation would not be able to keep things perfect and unchanging, and Ruin would not be able to destroy completely.

When has any man ever been content with what he has?

I am a stick,' he said. He sounded satisfied.

Still, she soon began digging into her sundae again. "Chocolate," she said, "is the greatest invention of all time.

when men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole -a deficiency - we scramble to fill it.

La clave de la felicidad no estaba en congelar todo placer momentáneo y aferrarse a ellos, sino en asegurarse de que la vida produjera muchos momentos futuros que esperar con ganas.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

Happy is the people who need no heroes.