Quotes About Satisfaction

Every day we "fill our reward bucket" with various sources of reward—and not every day is the same (see Figure 4). Some days will be rich with friends and family; other days you may fill your "reward bucket" by volunteering at a local food kitchen. And some days, we are left empty, unfulfilled.

For once desire is articulated in words it does not sit still, but displaces, drifting metonymically from one thing to the next. Desire is a product of language and cannot be satisfied with an object.

Whenever we force ourselves to conform to our ideals at the expense of our own satisfaction, we assure the Other's jouissance.

Satisfaction buries desires

Be happy, but never satisfied.

You won't want what you cannot have

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

As men die temporally for want of temporal bread, so they die spiritually for want of spiritual food.

Getting what you want is a serious matter. It is far more transformative than frustration.

If voters are systematically mistaken about what policies work, there is a striking implication: They will not be satisfied by the politicians they elect. A politician who ignores the public's policy preferences looks like a corrupt tool of special interests. A politician who implements the public's policy preferences looks incompetent because of the bad consequences.

Jesus designed the Lord's prayer to reveal His desire to give us more fully, graciously, and suitably the very things we most want but seek elsewhere. He does not want to deny us our desires but helps remove the false objects of our affections so that we will have the greater blessings he longs to lavish on us.

A person who wants nothing fears nothing.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.

I love the life I live, I live the life I love.

It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.

when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

Who ain't a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about—however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way—either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.

Pek çok uzun, mükerrer tecrübeler sonucunda art?k ÅŸunu anlad?m ki insan eriÅŸebileceÄŸi mutluluk seviyesine dair beklentisini aÅŸa?? çekmeli, en az?ndan yeniden deÄŸerlendirmelidir. MutluluÄŸu ak?l veya hayal yoluyla var?labilecek bir ÅŸey olarak görmekten vazgeçip kar?s?nda, yüreÄŸinde, yata??nda, masas?nda, eyerde, ÅŸömine ba??nda, k?rlarda aramal?d?r.

Who ain't a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about — however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way — either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content. Again

Who ain't a slave? Tell me that... I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way—either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.

No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.