Quotes About Satisfaction

The one thing he had learned living with Dana was that enough was never enough. There was always another thing, one more toy, one more adventure, and they were always just out of reach until they weren't. And then there would be the next thing.

Success is being happy first with yourself, and secondly with your life.

Immediate gratification takes too long.

The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there are some people who know how to have it all. They're probably off in a group somewhere, laughing at those of us who have it all but don't know how to.

I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.

instant gratification takes too long." Anyway

I could've given you so much but you wanted so little

That's why the sweetness of the sexual contact is perfect, but it can only be a dissappointment.

I'm feasting on a banquet of crumbs.

You can kill me when I no longer enjoy a cup of tea

Who could ask for more? I still think it's funny

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.

I believe I am happy because I am not ambitious.

I could not help thinking (as I told her) that half the pleasures of life were derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

If anyone is trying to make you jealous of their own heaven, they are clearly not happy enough there.

I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.

A story given in Lillian Hellman's Scoundrel Time. While attending the funeral of Hollywood producer Harry Cohn with a large number of mourners a friend said to George Jessel - I never saw such a mob at a funeral. Jessel replied - Same old story: you give 'em what they want and they'll fill the theater.

one can be both free and economically secure while leading a totally meaningless and empty existence.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.