Quotes About Satisfaction

Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.

Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead?

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.

The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want, it won't satisfy.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.

Achievement: The death of an endeavor, and the birth of disgust.

Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

Nouvelle cuisine, roughly translated, means "I can't believe I spent ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry."

I look back on my life like a good day's work; it is done and I am satisfied with it.

Happy the man, and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who, secure within can say, "Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."

In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in the country.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?