Quotes About Satisfaction

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

For greed, all nature is too little.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

Where would the end be? Will the idea—the definition—of perfection stay the same? No. Perfection is too fickle. It's in our nature to never be satisfied. We always think we can do more.