Quotes About Satisfaction

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

There are several ways to perform almost any act - an efficient, workable, artistic way and a careless, indifferent, sloppy way. Care and artistry are worth the trouble. They can be a satisfaction to the practitioner and a joy to all beholders.

Two hungry people should never make friends. If they do, they eat each other up. It is the same with one person who is hungry and another who is full: they cannot be real, real friends because the hungry one will eat the full one. You understand?

challenge, the way anything that came under discussion could be claimed or rejected by either side. Time and time again the power of an idea or a piece of art was assessed by either its beauty or its technique or its usefulness, and time and time again my wife was surprised by how rarely anything on earth satisfies all three camps." He

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Happiness is the things you possess divided by the things you expect.

Society has been enabled by tireless contributions of labor and generous financial support provided by many individuals whose only compensation has been the satisfaction of fostering the circulation of this sacred writing in the world. Publication of this edition,

From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

I tell you it's insidious being an ersatz Duchess, people rushing to give you what you want before you've had time to want it. If I kept this up for more than a month it would ruin my moral fiber.

Customers overwhelmingly show appreciation for great service with their wallets.

Any business with customers is in the "people" business.

You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

What makes hope such an intense pleasure is the fact that the future, which we dispose of to our liking, appears to us at the same time under a multitude of forms, equally attractive and equally possible. Even if the most coveted of these becomes realized, it will be necessary to give up the others, and we shall have lost a great deal.

I feel like a jug in which wine is poured until it overflows.

Ce n'était pas qu'elle ne fût contente de plaire, mais ce contentement n'était pas suffisant pour qu'elle se donnât beaucoup de peine en vue de l'obtenir; quand elle s'était passé un doigt mouillé sur les sourcils, et la langue sur les lèvres, elle avait beaucoup fait.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Against an economism void of values other than those of exchange, protest stood for reuniting the festival and daily life, for transforming daily life into a site of desire and pleasure. The protesters were protesting against the fact, simultaneously obvious and ignored, that delight and joy, pleasure and desire, desert a society that is content with satisfaction—that is to say, catalogued, created needs that procure some particular object and evaporate in it.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illumination the fog that surround

I was full of them. I had stopped being unfilled. Everything was perfection. I had no need to think, or weigh, or criticize, any more. No need to compare any more. My horizontal was now vertical. I existed at a height. I had not lived in vain.

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straightaway you take away his happiness.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.