Quotes About Satisfaction

Aside from the misperception of one's performance, there is a 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.

But this clearly left me to seek ego fulfillment elsewhere.

if you seek certainty about whether the patient has cancer, not certainty about whether he is healthy, then you might be satisfied with negative inference, since it will supply you the certainty you seek.

But you are already there; why take more risks?

wealth itself does not really make one happy (above, of course, some subsistence level); but positive changes in wealth may

Nero should have felt just as proud—and satisfied—had the envelope contained statements of losses.

when you leave people alone, they tend to settle for practical reasons.

I was pleasantly surprised by what turned out to be the best lunch I ever had in my entire life.

Wealthy' is meaningless and has no robust absolute measure; use instead the subtractive measure 'unwealth,' that is, the difference, at any point in time, between what you have and what you would like to have.

people might prefer to do something other than maximize their economic interests.

Breaking a fast feels like the exact opposite of a hangover.*

Sometimes the path to higher self-esteem is lonely and frightening. We cannot fully know in advance how much more satisfying our lives will be. But the more we are willing to experience and accept the many aspects of who we are, the richer our inner worlds, the greater our resources, the more appropriate we feel to the challenges and opportunities of life. Also, it is more likely that we will find - or create - a style of existence that will meet our individual needs.

The tragedy of many people's lives is that, given a choice between being "right" and having an opportunity to be happy, they invariably choose being "right." That is the one ultimate satisfaction they allow themselves.

The books are all in order now. It'll be easy for the children to find any book they want. It was a difficult job. But you did it. Thank you.

happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release...

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which was yet no ruin. He had caught a far other butterfly than this. When the artist rose high enough to achieve the beautiful, the symbol by which he made it perceptible to mortal senses became of little value in his eyes while his spirit possessed itself in the enjoyment of the reality.

It seems in the final analysis that people who get involved in religion are only after their own personal happiness.

Nihai analizde, dine bula?an insanlar yaln?zca kendi ki?isel mutluluklar?n?n pe?inde gibidir. Yan?l?yor muyum?

Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.

Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.' Let it wrap its antennae round that one, Janer thought. But the mind was quick with a reply. 'You cannot stop, then?' said the mind. 'No,' said Janer. 'Except to die.

Better to be numb than plagued by longing for something that could never be.

You should learn to relish the hunger more than the feast, lest you become a glutton.

found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages, and the emotional catharsis of slamming a book shut