Quotes About Satisfaction

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, ?He who is content.

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I'm a happy man.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

The duke nodded, his beautiful face full of catlike satisfaction. "But since then I have conquered a sterner fortress." His eyes mocked me. "And now I enter it freely.