Quotes About Satisfaction

All these traces of his life seemed to clutch him, and to say to him: "No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, but you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

Maybe its because i rejoice over what i have and don't grieve over what i don't have".

If you look for perfection, you will never be content.

Ninguém está satisfeito com os bens que possui, mas todos estão satisfeitos com a inteligência que têm.

Hayat?n?n bütün izleri sanki ona sar?lm?? ?öyle diyordu: "Hay?r, bizi b?rak?p gitmeyeceksin, ba?ka birisi olmayacaks?n, nas?lsan öyle kalacaks?n: Ku?kular?nla, kendinden sonsuz ho?nutsuzlu?unla, sonuçsuz kalan kendini düzeltme deneyimlerinle, ya?ad???n dü?ü?lerle ve senin için olanaks?z, sana nasip olmayacak sonsuz bir mutluluk beklentisiyle.

Having finished the newspaper, a second cup of coffee, and a kalatch with butter, he got up, brushed the crumbs from his waistcoat and, expanding his broad chest, smiled joyfully, not because there was anything especially pleasant in his heart - the smile was evoked by good digestion.

Although throughout these painful moments it had never occurred to him to seek guidance from religion, now that his decision coincided - so he thought - with the requirements of religion, the fact of there being a religious sanction for his decision gave him entire satisfaction and some comfort.

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them. —BLAISE PASCAL

to be loved is in your opinion as great a happiness as to love, and if a man obtains it, it is enough for his whole life. it is a misfortune to feel guilty because you do not something you cannot give

He soon felt that the realization of his desires gave him no more than a grain of sand out of the mountain of happiness he had expected.

Perhaps because I rejoice in what I have, and don't fret for what I haven't,

all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.

there is no condition in which man can be happy and entirely free, so there is no condition in which he need be unhappy and lack freedom.

The savage recognizes life only in himself and his personal desires. His interest in life is concentrated on himself alone. The highest happiness for him is the fullest satisfaction of his desires. The motive power of his life is personal enjoyment.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied. And it's true, as papa says,—that when we were brought up there was one extreme—we were kept in the basement, while our parents lived in the best rooms; now it's just the other way—the parents are in the wash house, while the children are in the best rooms. Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.

I am like a hungry man who has been given food. He may be cold, his clothes maybe tattered, he may feel ashamed, but he is not unhappy. Me unhappy? No, this is my happiness.

There was not a single cross or worried-looking face. All seemed to have left their cares and anxieties in the porter's room with their hats, and were all deliberately getting ready to enjoy the material blessings of life.

Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity.

Formerly each separate desire caused by suffering or privation, such as hunger, fatigue, thirst, had been satisfied by a bodily function that gave pleasure; but now privation and suffering received no satisfaction, and the attempt at satisfaction caused new suffering.

Cuánta gente, colmada de todo, se queja de continuo, lo encuentra todo mal y no acierta a gozar nunca de nada! Debemos mirar siempre hacia los que tienen menos que nosotros y contentarnos, y gozar de lo que poseemos sin alimentar nuestro espíritu de quimeras

And yet he wondered, was it enough? It must be... there was nothing else.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Datoria ... o pasiune f?r? bucurie.