Quotes About Satisfaction

Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. 1

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Qui mi fanno lavorare su cazzate, poi tutte stronzate! E il bello è che poi arriva il cliente e dice che non sono abbastanza stronzate! Troppo raffinate...

Ho trovato donna della mia vita! - Bene, adesso ti basta trovare una vita e sei a posto.

You're gonna turn me into one of those fat, useless, contented cats," Binx said.

Hungry people mindlessly follow orders. You feed them enough and right away they demand self-government.

Sou como uma pessoa faminta a quem deram de comer" "I am like a starveling person who was given some food" Anna Karénina

As soon as you remember, the spiritual mind, your Inner Vision, is satisfied and there is no longer tension. When the tension is gone, the answer is yes. When the tension is there, the answer is no.

When a natural instinct surfaces, the ego wants to have it satisfied, but the superego does not allow that. The ego submits to the "higher" superego, but is left with the problem. It begins a struggle with the impulse and, to reduce the pain of not satisfying it, engineers a defense that allows itself to make sense of its decision to submit.

Barry Schwartz's distinction between maximizers and satisficers has given us the counterintuitive insight that restricting our choices in life can actually lead to greater happiness and satisfaction, and

We are actually programmed to get satisfaction and pleasure from discovery and creativity, he says, because its results lead to our survival as a species. New

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.

Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them.

I've had offers that could've made me much richer and much more famous than I am.

I've been single forever, and, oh God, I love every minute of it. I don't wish to sound offensive, and it always does when women say that, doesn't it?

I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

I'm OK: I don't need money.

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

Honestly, I have always been content. When I was working, I was satisfied; when I wasn't, I was still happy. I'm okay with whatever I do.

Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.

Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

I'm happy in Oklahoma. It's closer to family. Nobody expects anything of you there.

The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'