Quotes About Satisfaction

Love is about heartbreak, If you think it's fulfillment, happiness, satisfaction, union, it's even more heartbreak.

Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.

A man cannot own more than his heart can love.

Stop feeding the ego food, then it will stop asking for more.

You were like fine wine, but cheap wine gets you drunk faster.

what you don't know, you don't miss

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

People, generally, do not complain of high prices, providing the "service" or embellishment of the merchandise is such as to pave the way for high prices. What people do complain of, and rightly so, is high prices and "sloppy" service.

The man who is satisfied with mediocrity needs but few clothes. It may be true, as a well known poet has said, that "clothes do not make the man," but no one can deny the fact that good clothes go a very long way toward giving him a favorable start.

Le discutí un penique a la Vida, Y la vida no me dio más, Por más que le implorara de noche Cuando contaba mis escasos bienes. La Vida es un amo justo, y te da lo que le pides, Pero cuando has fijado el precio, Debes soportar la faena Trabajé por un salario de jornalero, Sólo para descubrir perplejo, Que cualquier salario que le hubiera pedido a la Vida, Esta me lo hubiese pagado de buen grado.

Without money, one must take what one is offered, and be glad to get it.

Adequacy of quality and quantity of service is not sufficient to maintain a permanent market for your services. The conduct, or the spirit in which you deliver service, is a strong determining factor in connection with both the price you receive, and the duration of employment.

You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

you have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits

Two weekends in Philadelphia are not twice as pleasant as a single one—I've tried.

social treadmill effect: You get rich, move to rich neighborhoods, then become poor again. To that add the psychological treadmill effect; you get used to wealth and revert to a set point of satisfaction. This problem of some people never really getting to feel satisfied by wealth (beyond a given point) has been the subject of technical discussions on happiness.

This anchoring to a number is the reason people do not react to their total accumulated wealth, but to differences of wealth from whatever number they are currently anchored to. This is the major conflict with economic theory, as according to economists, someone with $1 million in the bank would be more satisfied than if he had half a million. But

Consider that all the wealth of the world can't buy a liquid more pleasurable than water after intense thirst.

He would be forced to act as a satisficer instead of a maximizer

The question remains whether optimizers are unhappy because they are constantly seeking a better deal or if unhappy people tend to optimize out of their misery.

Mother Nature destined us to derive enjoyment from a steady flow of pleasant small, but frequent, rewards.

Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren't for hunger;