Quotes About Satisfaction

You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.

Pizza is good medicine for disappointment.

Enough. What does "enough" feel like? When happiness and contentment happen, how do you know?

Même si nos écrits n'avaient en moyenne pas d'autre résultat que la restitution, pour quelques-uns, de cette barque salvatrice qu'est la prière, nous devrions à Dieu de nous tenir pour profondément satisfait.

Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Simcha, Rabbi Tatz said, is "the experience of the soul that comes when you are doing what you should be doing.

But there was nothing except this languid contentment of satisfied desire, as if the rules had changed or the world wasn't the same anymore.

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

If you want a woman to be sprightly in bed, you must leave her a margin of fun.

Like cider and aged wine I was desired, desired like the sheer blue cascade that dazzles the eyes of the thirsty.

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.

the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.

Is a twist less satisfying if you know it's coming? Is a twist that you can't predict symptomatic of bad construction? These are things to consider when writing.

The fish does not die with regrets because the fish cannot love. I die with regrets, and yet I am glad I am not a fish.

In truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don't really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.

Because the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.