Quotes About Satisfaction

It gave her a sense of pride and accomplishment

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Felicidad no es hacer lo que uno quiere sino querer lo que uno hace (Jean Paul Sartre)

Felicidad no es hacer lo que uno quiere sino querer lo que uno hace.

I have arranged my little life.

And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only our lips might meet. Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The greedy body that clamors for satisfaction is forced to content itself with a single sensation and, just as the blind hear more acutely and the deaf can feel the grass grow, so the mouth becomes the focus of love and all things pass through it and are re-defined. It is a sweet and precise torture.

Contentment is a feeling you say? Are you sure it's not an absence of feeling?

The third is to refuse the passion as one might sensibly refuse a leopard in the house, however tame it might seem at first. You might reason that you can easily feed a leopard and that your garden is big enough, but you will know in your dreams at least that no leopard is ever satisfied with what it is given. After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough garden for your love.

Clo was looking like the cat who got the cream, the kippers, the peanut butter, the sliced chicken and a lifetime's supply of genetically engineered slow-moving mice.

You might reason that you can easily feed a leopard and that your garden is big enough, but you will know in your dreams at least that no leopard is ever satisfied with what it is given. After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough garden for your love.

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.

The money which a man possesses is the instrument of freedom; that which we eagerly pursue is the instrument of slavery. Therefore I hold fast to that which I have, and desire nothing.

Self-love, which concerns itself only with ourselves, is content to satisfy our own needs; but selfishness, which is always comparing self with others, is never satisfied and never can be; for this feeling, which prefers ourselves to others, requires that they should prefer us to themselves, which is impossible.

Hay más: el verdadero placer no se describe; sólo se siente, y tanto más cuanto menos puede describirse, porque no resulta de un conjunto de hechos sino de un estado permanente.

As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.

This rat was not just eating the sugar. He was bathing in it, wallowing in it, positively luxuriating in it, his flickering tail hanging over the side of the bowl, flinging sugar across the table.

Happiness is not doing what you want but wanting what you do.

Everywhere, now, there are objects like this glass of beer on the table there. When I see it, I feel like saying: "Enough." I realize quite well that I have

Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.