Quotes About Satisfaction

We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough…. We have only to look at the houses we build to see how we build against space, the way we drink against pain and loneliness. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there.

may you live as long as you want to and want to as long as you live.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

Anything that can't be done in bed isn't worth doing at all.

Here is my theory: If smoking is really good, you should be able to smoke and do nothing else at the same time, really focusing all your attention on smoking and how it makes you feel.

I also urge you not to wash your hands, face or mouth in between cigarettes. Let the taste and smell stay with you, in your hair, your clothes, hands and face.

It is imperative that your work habits from school do not make their way into your book writing process. I am talking about the practice of typing the last words just before the deadline every time you would hand in an assignment, a paper, or even a thesis. Your book needs time to mature, and you must allow yourself the luxury of rewriting and editing until you are satisfied.

The masses are not happy enough to want more out of life and not unhappy enough to reject their way of living or want a better life.

Short term goals are often based on dissatisfaction, and actions based on dissatisfaction will eventually lead to a life of unhappiness.

From things which have been obtained after having been long desired men almost never derive the pleasure and delight which they had anticipated.

Vrijeme prolazi, a mi prolazimo s njim i naj?eš?e radimo ono što možemo, a ne ono što bismo htjeli. Ostatak ?ini sudbina, a sre?a povremeno doda poneko zrnce soli. To je sve.

Samo roman na najbolji na?in može da pokaže koliko je stvarnost slaba i nedovoljna da zadovolji ?ovekove apetite, ostvari njegove želje i snove. ~ Mario Vargas Ljosa ~

At the end of his spell in Argentina he felt that he was better prepared than ever before; not totally, because Pep will never allow himself to be completely satisfied, but he felt ready enough to start putting everything he had learnt to the test.

Today she is the richest woman in the world; she has everything she could want; she loves and is loved,

Repetition only extinguishes pleasure.

Manu's verse quoted above, declares that the 'satisfaction of the mind is the only authority in cases of conflicting alternatives'. 54 The classical poet, Kalidasa, who lived in the fifth century AD , was of the same view: 'In matters where doubt intervenes, the [natural] inclination of the heart of the good person becomes the "authority" or the decisive factor.' 55

Freude, die einen Anlaß braucht, ist nicht Freude, sondern Vergnügen.

In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

Perfection is the enemy of the good.

era poeta, tanto que nunca le habían satisfecho las formas en que pudiera encerrar sus pensamientos, y nunca los había encerrado al escribirlos.

If there's one thing I hate about religion books, it's that arrogant attitude of smug satisfaction that we get when we think we've produced the ultimate answers to all the deep questions that have bothered the greatest thinkers of the ages. If the answers were so simple, those questions wouldn't still be with us.

The unattended mind lives with unending wants, while the awakened mind understands that its own watchfulness is the fullness it seeks.