Quotes About Satisfaction

Large natures have usually large desires, and only the small are satisfied with the small.

I did love him. But I did not love him like I loved Dutchy: beyond reason. Maybe you only get one of those in a lifetime, I don't know. But it was all right. It was enough.

Sometimes you don't look for perfect. Sometimes enough is the most you can hope for.

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

she would say to the children as they crowded about her bent shoulders, peering at her satin stitch or Madeira work, "my kids too: I'm not proud; well, I don't care what happens to you kids, I've done my best and if that's not satisfactory, you must try another shop.

But don't go shopping. That is one thing that many of us do for fun that won't result in lasting happiness. Materialistic people are more likely to be depressed or anxious and have low self-esteem. The more we seek happiness in material things, the less likely we are to find it.

We are increasingly abandoning Aristotle's view of paideia—learning and habituating virtues for personal flourishing and the common good—in favor of technical-instrumental education leading to private wealth for some, argues philosopher Richard Eldridge: "to abandon the cultivation of virtues and instead to teach only in order to produce measurable outcomes is to capitulate to an individualist culture of instrumental control and private satisfactions."44

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

Was there anything quite so under-rated in this shallow, plastic, global-corporate, tall-skinny-late, kiddy-meal-and-free-toy, united-colours-of-fuck-you-too world, than a good old-fashioned, no-frills, retail blow-job?

It was that he seemed...content to live in a wholly unexplored world.

Don't worry about it,' he said, noting my frown in response to him deciding on a final setting that seemed rougher than the last. 'We're not happy until you're not happy.

It was possible to love life, without loving your life.

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

Sex makes me the kind of happy that I usually only manage to be in dreams.

The dead bolt made a heavy, satisfying thunk as he turned the lock, and Jake found that he liked that sound. He liked it very much.

Mother Teresa once said: When Jesus came into the world, He loved it so much that He gave His life for it. He wanted to satisfy our hunger for God. And what did He do? He made Himself the Bread of Life. He became small, fragile, and defenseless for us. Bits of bread can be so small that even a baby can chew it. He became the Bread of Life to satisfy our hunger for God, our hunger for love.' After

Success is to be Happy in Life.

Chi trova gusto a mangiare non è ancora perduto

But we had no intention of becoming shopkeepers or merely earning money. We needed work that would at the same time procure us satisfaction. And more than anything, we desired to make ourselves useful

You humans are the ones who want more. You want the whole world to bow to human desires.

money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

The thing about longing is this: It is easy to feel equal to wanting. It is rare to feel equal to having.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.