Quotes About Satisfaction

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

In his biggest sacrifices, man finds the biggest fulfillment

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

Buying food never did make sense to me. When I finally spend some money I prefer to have some permanent evidence of the expenditure. Doing it on something that is immediately consumed leaves me feeling cheated. For much the same reason, I suppose, I have never smoked. Buying something and then setting it on fire is incomprehensible. So

What constitutes wise policy . . . will depend on whether the immediate objective of policy is the promotion of political ends, the protection of vested interests, or the satisfaction of consumer needs.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

We must be satisfied with the soup that is set before us, and not desire to see the bones of the ox out of which it has been boiled.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

I do not like the idea of happiness -- it is too momentary.

Thus captain and crew enjoyed a life style above their means, one they were anxious to perpetuate.

I'm making some scones,' said Mother, and sighs of satisfaction ran round the table, for Mother's scones, wearing cloaks of home-made strawberry jam, butter, and cream, were a delicacy all of us adored.

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she's ravenous.

Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

In any case, the manifesto states that a Jew is without honour from the day of his birth. That he cannot differentiate between what is dirty and what is clean. That he is ethically subhuman and dishonourable. It is therefore impossible to insult a Jew and from this it follows that a Jew cannot demand satisfaction for any insult.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything by a fresh starting-point for further desires.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.