Quotes About Satisfaction

Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches.

A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth.

Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.

I'd like to be able to do that too, matey. Window-shop, go to the odd movie. What's window-shopping really like, eh? If it's too much of a feast, you'd better not tell me.

The frog's life is most jolly, my lads; he has no careWho shall fill up his cup; for he has drink enough to spare.

The original restrictive meaning of sexual aberration which derives satisfaction from a passive relation to the partner has been retained. Masochism, however, has come to mean also a particular attitude toward life or a definite type of social behavior: of enjoying one's own suffering or one's own helplessness. The word has outgrown its narrower, sexual meaning and become desexualized.

I submitted entirely to the dog and, as a man with no gift for dancing, I had the feeling that I was able to dance for the first time in my life, secure and without inhibition. Occasionally, we kissed, the dog and I. Woke up feeling extremely satisfied.

The road to heaven is paved with fulfilled desires, and to hell with frustrated ones.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I see that as a kind of new wealth that counts for more than owning material things. I also see art as something people will do rather than consume, and do it as a natural part of their lives; creative endeavors are a form of profound spiritual satisfaction.

Mick As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.

Life is too long not to be happy.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire. Thou canst not be satisfied with any temporal good, for thou wast not created for the enjoyment of these.

Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Gregory says (Moral. xxxii, 7): "He is in glory, Who whilst He rejoices in Himself, needs not further praise.

Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want

Who is a wretch, or unhappy? He that holdeth not himself content with that that God hath sent him.

If you want to really relax sometime, just fall to rock bottom and you'll be a happy man. Most all troubles come from having standards.