Quotes About Satisfaction

If you have mindfulness, if you feel safe, you recognize that you have plenty of conditions to be happy already, and that you don't need to run into the future in order to get a few more conditions.

Freedom from desire is the best of states.

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? - Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

There is a thirst for Love which no human relation can quench. It is only the Divine's love that can satisfy that thirst. MCW, vol 14, Words Of The Mother II, p.121

Never seek support elsewhere than in the Divine. Never seek satisfaction elsewhere than in the Divine. Never seek the satisfaction of your needs in anyone else than the Divine - never, for anything at all. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers, p.73

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

He would not wear the social shackles if it were possible to satisfy the needs of his heart and nature and still remain free and unfettered.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful

No one ever gets what they want. And that is beautiful.

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

Aimlessness does not mean doing nothing. It means not putting something in front of you to chase after. When we remove the objects of our craving and desires, we discover that happiness and freedom are available to us right here in the present moment.

Our idea of happiness may be the very thing that's preventing us from being happy.

For true love to be there, you need to feel complete in yourself, not needing something from outside.

A few years ago, I asked some children, What is the purpose of eating breakfast? One boy replied, To get energy for the day. Another said, The purpose of eating breakfast is to eat breakfast. I think the second child is more correct.

Suppose you want something very much. You think that if you don't get that something, happiness won't be possible. You get caught in that idea. But, in reality, there are people who have that thing who are miserable, and there people who don't have that thing who are perfectly happy.

We have an idea of happiness. We believe that only certain conditions will make us happy. But it is often our very idea of happiness that prevents us from being happy.

When we take a moment to sit and breathe before we eat, we can get in touch with the real hunger in our body. We can discover if we're eating because we're hungry or if we're eating because it's the time to eat and the food is there.

FREEDOM IS THE basis of all happiness. Without freedom, there is no happiness.

Don't look outside yourself for happiness. Let go of the idea that you don't have it. It is available within you.

If you haven't been able to be happy, maybe it's because you're holding firmly to your idea of happiness

When we go home to the present moment, we understand there are so many conditions of happiness that we don't need to go running after yet another one. We already have enough conditions to be happy. Happiness is entirely possible right in the here and now. The