Quotes About Satisfaction

The thesis of this final chapter in part one therefore is that "a deep life is not just economically lucrative but also a life well lived

a life well lived requires activities that serve no other purpose than the satisfaction that the activity itself generates.

if your life consists only of actions whose "worth depends on the existence of problems, difficulties, needs, which these activities aim to solve," you're vulnerable to the existential despair that blooms in response to the inevitable question, Is this all there is to life? One solution to this despair, he notes, is to follow Aristotle's lead and embrace pursuits that provide you a "source of inward joy.

There are many complex reasons for workplace satisfaction, but the reductive notion of matching your job to a pre-existing passion is not among them.

After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever.

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

That night I learned there are two kinds of hunger. The first I can satisfy with cheeseburgers and chocolate milk, but there's a second part of me, biding it's time. It can go on like that for months, maybe even years, but sooner or later I'll give in to it. It's like there's a great big hole inside me, and once it takes his shape he's the only thing that can fill it.

In this troublesome world we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business—no variety—it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me...I hate to stay in this old room by myself. —Abraham Lincoln

Because a happy worker is a more productive worker?

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

The individual is increasingly deprived of the moral decision as to how he should live his own life, and instead is ruled, fed, clothed and educated as a social unit, accommodated in the appropriate housing unit, and amused in accordance with the standards that give pleasure and satisfaction to the masses.

He wondered if something was mentally wrong with him for being content with what he had

Liberating and expressing your natural genius is your ultimate path to success and life satisfaction. Your Zone of Genius is the set of activities you are uniquely suited to do.

Those who have the courage to discover and bring forth their genius break through to unparalleled heights of productivity and life satisfaction. Discovering your Zone of Genius is your life's Big Leap.

When I'm operating in my Zone of Genius, I am doing what I love to do and I'm enjoying what I have.

I allowed myself one more thought. Maybe, just maybe, everything was pretty fine, just the way it was. Tank lived that way. Why not me?

It would've been easier to die. It's not that I want to be dead now. I don't. I have a lot in my life that I get satisfaction from, that I love. But some days, especially in the beginning, it was so hard. And I couldn't help but think that it would've been so much simpler to go with the rest of them. But you—you asked me to stay. You begged me to stay. You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow.

I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

you're wrong about quitting when you're ahead. It means being grateful. Stopping when you realize you have is enough.

I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

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