Quotes About Satisfaction

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

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

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.

I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame, you just do it.

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.

How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.

He profits most who serves best.

Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious, rewarded, and ready for more.