Quotes About Satisfaction

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

The whole thing with so many people empathising with 'The Office' has made me aware of how people aren't doing jobs they love, aren't living a life they love. Which I find devastating.

So many people are focused on reaching the top of an imaginary ladder that they don't enjoy the climb.

Looking back, I can't say I got any real satisfaction from so many people being interested in what I looked like.

It was the greatest thing in the world getting fat. Every meal out was an event. Or we'd go to Italy and we'd have pasta, truffles, and dessert and then plan the next incredible meal. It was a happy-go-lucky time. I never had so much fun.

It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.

I have so much fun and I'm a better person when I'm happy.

I'm not one of those actresses that's going to feel like I never achieved my dreams and goals and just get disgruntled and hate everything about the business. I've had so much fun.

I love so much what I do that I spend so much time thinking about it, and then I go home, and then I'm thinking about it, so it's nice sometimes when a movie is over, and then the niggling feelings about whether you've did it right or not start to ebb away.

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.

I could certainly eat more of this, but am I still hungry?

To say "I'm hungry" in French you say "J'ai faim"—"I have hunger"—and when you are finished, you do not say that you are full, but "Je n'ai plus faim"—"I have no more hunger.

If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you're not hungry.)

Could it be that sweetness is the prototype of all desire?

If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. Mark Twain1

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. "On Repentance

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. We seek other conditions because we do not understand the use of our own, and go outside of ourselves because we do not know what it is like inside. Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump.

He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, I have lived.

Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity.

Most of our desires are born and nurtured at other people's expense.

Dado que ambos buscan, antes que nada, prestarse mutuos servicios, quien propicia la ocasión es el más generoso, pues ofrece a su amigo la satisfacción de realizar lo que más desea.

Folly never thinks it has enough, even when it obtains what it desires, but Wisdom is happy with what is to hand and is never vexed with itself.]3