Quotes About Satisfaction

She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

Quiet! My wife!' 'Is she sleeping?' 'Sleeping? She never sleeps! No, you fool, she hunts !' 'Hunts? What does she hunt?' 'Not what. Who. She hunts for me, of course. But has she found me? No! We've not seen each other for months! Hee he! It's a perfect marriage. I've never been happier. You should try it.

The more you dream of one particular and pleasing thing, Ralata, the quicker it palls. The edges get worn down, the lustre fades. To leave such obsessions behind, dream of them often.

It is a fool's curse, to measure oneself in endless dissatisfaction.

There is nothing wrong with where we are, how we are. You spit on satisfaction, leaving you always unsettled and miserable. I am a Teblor – we live simply enough, and we see the cruelty of your so-called progress. Slaves, children in chains, a thousand lies to make one person better than the next, a thousand lies telling you this is how things should be, and there's no stopping it.

A thousand other deaths, ' he whispered, so low that only Baruk and Rake heard him, 'would not have satisfied me. But I'll settle for this one.

Halston listened to her thoughtfully, smoking a cigarette, and when Liza was finished with her lament, he said softly, "Gee, I think about my life, and I've just had a wonderful life. Always. I was always a success. I've always had the best workers. I've always had the nicest friends. I always had everything I wanted.' He smiled his perfect smile at her. 'I've had a great life,' he said.

Let's not have any regrets when we walk off that field at the end of tonight,

Maybe we're luckier than ninety percent of the people on the planet, but no matter how expensive the shoe, it still pinches when it doesn't fit.

If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

Descartes y Bacon son solo dos de los filósofos que a lo largo de los siglos intentaron formular reglas para la investigación científica, algo que nunca funciona. Aprendemos a practicar la ciencia no imponiendo reglas acerca de cómo practicarla, sino a partir de la experiencia de trabajar en ella, impulsados por la satisfacción que obtenemos cuando nuestros métodos consiguen explicar algo.

But every once in a while someone finds a way of explaining some phenomenon that fits so well and clarifies so much that it gives the finder intense satisfaction, especially when the new understanding is quantitative, and observation bears it out in detail. Imagine

Nos proporciona un intenso placer conseguir explicar algo con éxito, al igual que cuando Newton explicó las leyes del movimiento planetario de Kepler, junto con otras muchas cosas. Las teorías y los métodos científicos que sobreviven son aquellos que proporcionan esa satisfacción, encajen o no con ningún modelo preexistente sobre cómo habría que practicar la ciencia.