Quotes About Satisfaction

farming takes root in you and crowds out other endeavors, makes them seem paltry. Your acres become a world. And maybe you realize that it is beyond those acres or in your distant past, back in the realm of TiVo and cubicles, of take-out food and central heat and air, in that country where discomfort has nearly disappeared, that you were deprived. Deprived of the pleasure of desire, of effort and difficulty and meaningful accomplishment.

You know something, it's best no to have what you need because then, you start looking for what you need and make it what you need.

It's just that fun atmosphere, working on the car, being with the guys. This is exactly what I needed.

You can't buy happiness

all i want...is mac and cheese

yeah, you can't buy happiness

Ja, wir wollen wohl ein bißchen viel: kluge Gespräche und Logik und gutes Aussehen und ein bißchen Treue und dann dieser nie zu unterdrückende Wunsch, von der Frau wie ein Beefsteak gefressen zu werden, daß die Kinnbacken krachen... .

Ihr glaubt, ihr seid dazu verpflichtet - ja, das wolln wir aber gar nicht - ja, das wolln wir aber gar nicht! Auch ohne Liebe sind wir manchmal glücklich und froh - es geht auch ohne das - es geht auch so! Es geht auch ohne das - es geht auch so!

Te conformas con muy poco, Aki -dije. -No, qué va. Pido muchísimo - respondió-. Lo que pasa es que no quiero perder esa felicidad. Tengo la intención de llevármela conmigo, vaya a donde vaya, y para siempre.

Creo que lo que tenemos en el presente lo comprende todo –dijo ella al final, escogiendo cuidadosamente las palabras–. Ahí esta todo, no falta nada. Por lo tanto, no hay ninguna necesidad de pedir lo que nos falta a Dios ni de buscarlo en el otro mundo o en el paraíso. Porque ya existe.

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

I shall take the heart. [...] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want.

When each earthly brace falls under, And life seems a restless sea, Are you then a God-held wonder, Satisfied and calm and free?

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. (Philippians 4:11)

The biggest sign of happiness is when we pass to desire what we already have.

Does everybody ever want everything they can have? really?

It was only then that she realized, that she remembered, what the true danger in this was. Only then that she understood what Gabriel had meant by his warnings. Because she could feel what he felt. And along with the gratitude, the sheer satisfaction and relief, were other emotions. Appreciation, joy, wonder, and-oh, dear God, love.... Gabriel loved her.

You should have fed." I shrugged.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.