Quotes About Satisfaction

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

The more we take, the less we become.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

He does not need anything. He does not want anything.

The universe itself can never be the limit of our satisfaction. That is why the miser gathers more and more money, that is why the robber robs, the sinner sins, that is why you are learning philosophy. All have one purpose. There is no other purpose in life, save to reach this freedom. Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire.

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

Being able to do exactly as one pleases is the surest way to remain perpetually unpleased.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

Many in this world run after felicity like an absent man hunting for his hat, while all the time it is on his head or in his hand.

I'll have another bowl of your wonderful soup!

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Sitting here, and thus, she had attained to a state which she could never have desired, not even conceived. And being so unforeseen, so alien to her character and upbringing, her felicity had an absolute perfection; no comparison between the desired and the actual could tear holes in it, no ambition whisper, But this is not quite what you wanted, is it?

Terminate tormentOf love unsatisfiedThe greater tormentOf love satisfied.

When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.

Unfortunately, many of us often spend our lives doing what we were trained to do. Some do what they were asked to do. And most of us do what others need us to do. And all the while, we wonder why the feeling of fulfillment eludes us.

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

sometimes wondered if it would be better to let go of the pain of wanting and settle for the calm mediocrity of the status quo.

Books. Cats. Life is good.

Wszyscy s? jako? zadowoleni ze swoich miejsc, które im wyznaczy?o przeznaczenie i ?a?cuch genów. Wykonuj? skromnie, co im ka?e Wielka Entropia. A ja obra?am si? na los, na swoje ograniczenie, na Pana Boga. Pragn? czego?, czego nie mog?. Marz? o tym, czego nie b?dzie. Ton? w sze??dziesi?ciu litrach w?asnej truj?cej wody, ja, zdefektowany ssak dwuno?ny.

If shopping doesn't make you happy, then you're in the wrong shop.

Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.