Quotes About Satisfaction

If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.

Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it.

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose.

Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

From his cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.

He who demands little gets it.

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.