Quotes About Satisfaction

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

Life holds so much, so much to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions.

It is the happiness that comes from within that is lasting and fulfilling.

Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs ... of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more.

Joy is your birthright.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of indigestion.

If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in tiie course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.

Be Satisfied with a Good Day's Work There are hundreds of tasks we feel we must accomplish in the day, but if we do not take them one at a time ... we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.

No one is content with his own lot.

Man's heart is never satisfied; the snake would swallow the elephant.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here."

If solid happiness we prize, within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; the world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut-our home.

My crown is called content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.