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Quotes About Satisfaction

I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.
~ Willa Cather
To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.
~ W. Beran Wolfe
The busiest man is the happiest man.
~ Sir Theodore Martin
Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.
~ Denis de Rougemont
Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.
~ Hugh Walpole
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
~ Sir James M. Barrie
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
~ Ken Keyes
1 am happy and content because I think I am.
~ AlainRene Lesage
Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.
~ David Grayson
Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
~ Robert Burton
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.
~ E. Merrill Root
Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.
~ Bertha Damon
It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.
~ Anonymous
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.
~ Channing Pollock
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
~ John Stuart Mill
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.
~ Don Marquis
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
~ George Sand
We are all happy, if we only knew it.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual... would be, I think, an American cow.
~ William Lyon Phelps
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
~ Gabrielle Roy
No man is happy unless he believes he is.
~ Publilius Syrus
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
~ John Stuart Mill