Quotes About Satisfaction

He who is greedy is always in want.

No gain satisfies a greedy mind.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.

Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent, and so would always be able to have water in abundance, how fortunate he would consider himself; so too, when a man who ... is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men.

Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.