Quotes About Satisfaction

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Today the concept of delayed gratification is seen as a denial of some inherent natural right

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

So long always as joy was not rashly pinned to the happening; so long as you accepted what joys the universe offered and did not seek to compel the universe to offer you joys of your own definition.

We don't need the Good Life. The Pretty Good Life would be just fine.

Worshipping God] is like fellating someone who intermittently stubs fags out on your head for no good reason. And we all know how unsatisfying that can be.

all lovers are vampires)

If you made it to the end of the day, then it was a good day. You didn't think any further ahead than that. The future was a mystery.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

A tip from Lubitsch: 'Let the audience add up two plus two and they'll love you forever.

We found a friendly nut-tree, those large, satisfying nuts we already knew so well, and filled our pockets. I see that I have not remarked that these women had pockets in surprising number and variety. They were in all their garments.

Good is good and enough is enough, but good enough is not…

Happy is measuring your life against the options and not wanting to change it. It's getting the best of a series of bargains, bad or otherwise.

When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged her to eat; it gave seasoning to poor food that no spice could furnish. ("The Generalissimo's Butterfly")

He hadn't found what he'd meant to find, but his need to swipe and hoard something had been appeased for now.

It's folly to measure your success in money or fame. Success is measured only by your ability to say yes to these two questions: Did I do the work I needed to do? Did I give it everything I had?

so long as you stay in a relationship that isn't meeting your needs, you're in a relationship that isn't meeting your needs.

It had been an indisputably good time, but now I felt empty. Like there was something I didn't even know I wanted until I didn't get it.

I think for a lot of people, they think if you're successful, all of a sudden you get some card in the mail that says you're gonna be totally satisfied and happy for the rest of your life. It doesn't happen like that. Life, for me, happens the way it always has ... The only difference is I'm in Linkin Park.

Uriah is a good soldier—but a poor husband. He's not interested in spending time in bed with me. He'd rather be with his army friends. If my husband won't satisfy my needs, I have a right to have them satisfied by someone else.

A thanked employee is an appreciative employee." And thanks is cheaper than cash.

He refused to think about how at the age of forty-eight he could conclude, without any satisfaction at all, that he'd been right his entire life for being a bitterly cynical bastard.

Soup is liquid comfort.