Quotes About Satisfaction

Desear una cosa tras otra para sentirnos bien es la enfermedad colectiva de los seres humanos de nuestra época. Y

The Buddha spoke about the practice of samtusta, recognizing that we have enough conditions to be happy right here and right now. We don't need to obtain any more. Samtusta has been translated as realizing that one is satisfied with little.

Always wanting the impossible and left with the possible in his minimal existence, the individual always find himself in the lowest depths of dissatisfaction. Nevertheless he always manages to create another life situation for himself, probably because he really loves life, just as it is. We always crave something other than we can have, than we have, other than what is suitable for us, and so we're unhappy.

Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.

But the bitter thing is, that when I was rich I didn't need what I could have, and now I be poor I can't have what I need!

More than ever he longed to be in some world where personal ambition was not the only recognized form of progress—such, perhaps, as might have been the case at some time or other in the silvery globe then shining upon him.

A felicidade não depende do que nos falta, mas sim do bom uso do que temos. Thomas Hardy

The secret of happiness lay in limiting the aspirations . . .

He spoke in squarely shaped sentences, and was supremely satisfied with a condition of sublunary things which made weapons a necessity.

Occasionally, on purpose, Dr. Lecter drops a teacup to shatter on the floor. He is satisfied when it does not gather itself together. For many months now, he has not seen Mischa in his dreams. Someday perhaps a cup will come together. Or somewhere Starling may hear a crossbow string and come to some unwilled awakening, if indeed she even sleeps.

Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Once you're in a high-income bracket, say $100,000 or $200,000 or more, it matters less how much more you make than what you do with what you already have.

It turns out that those with the most money, those who are in a position to buy their happiness, don't. And they don't buy expensive wine either.

There is no significant correlation between the make [brand] of motor vehicle you drive and your level of happiness with life.

Happy people tend to live well below their means. I have found this to be the case in all of the studies I have conducted.

More than in the 1990s, the proliferation of technology makes us like mice in the Skinner box, constantly touching our phones to get the next pellet of news, drivel, or consumer goods. Scientists have linked activity and satisfaction from screen time with dopamine and equated its use to other addictive habits.

My surveys indicate that there is a significant correlation between income and satisfaction with life. In other words, earning more money may make you somewhat happier, but spending that money (particularly on cars) won't. If we make the appropriate statistical adjustments for income differences in life satisfaction, then we find that the average satisfaction among Toyota drivers [vs BMW] is higher. p173

Even at this stage of life, I don't

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.