Quotes About Satisfaction

Desmond looked up from his plate. "I haven't eaten this good since…" He couldn't think of it. "They should inspect this place all the time.

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.

We are being bought off by our affair with the contemporary drug of choice: ease.

Once we had filled each other with desire, not remembrance.

although i know that a wall to happiness is expecting too much happiness

A bi gezunt, his mother would have said. She was always one for the ancient phrase. You have your health, what more do you want? —

and even at Christmas, there is nothing to be gained by wishing for what one can't possibly have.

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and deepens disappointments; it undermines and diminishes pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction; it may even lead to depression or physical illness.

Pleasure in itself cannot give our existence meaning; thus the lack of pleasure cannot take away meaning from life

The pleasure principle is an artificial creation of psychology. Pleasure is not the goal of our aspirations, but the consequence of attaining them.

When man can't find meaning in his life, he distracts himself with pleasure.

Whether a life is fulfilled does not depend on how great one's radius of action is, but rather only on whether the circle is fully filled out.

it is a question of the attitude one takes toward life's challenges and opportunities, both large and small. A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and deepens disappointments; it undermines and diminishes pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction; it may even lead to depression or physical illness.

A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction.

Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

Don't aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue

one of his key ideas: Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.

A human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy

Meaning orientation had subsided, and consequently the seeking of immediate pleasure had taken over.