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Quotes About Satisfaction

People go fishing because of needs. People swim because of wants. People fish and swim even in unpredictable waters for contentment.
~ Unknown
The needs of the people may be limited because of wants. To need more is to want less. But to want more is to need more.
~ Unknown
Believing in God because doing so satisfies one's needs is different from believing that there is a God solely because of evidence.
~ Unknown
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.
~ Clifton Fadiman
Cúpoles la ración de dos copas por estómago: a la segunda quedó abierto el apetito del copeo, y las botellas fueron llegando una tras otra a pedimento de don Sebastián.
~ Unknown
All you really need in life is a good quality cigar, a place sit and a lighter that that works "
~ Unknown
You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed; and I earnestly pray that a Merciful God will extend to you His blessing and protection. —ROBERT E. LEE IN HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS TO THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
~ Unknown
If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
~ Colette
We only do well the things we like doing.
~ Colette
Trudno zadowoli? jednocze?nie wszystkich i sam? siebie. Wol? zacz?? od siebie...
~ Colette
Bien sûr, je ne conçois pas que des gens vivent à Paris pour leur plaisir.
~ Colette
Philippe did not know how to express such a thought as: 'All too few are the occasions in life when, with mind content, eyes surfeited with beauty, heart light, retentive, and almost empty, there comes a moment for the senses to be filled to overflowing: I shall remember this as just such a moment.
~ Colette
and Lewis felt excitement, and gratification. Somebody—some
~ Colin Dexter
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. (SAMUEL JOHNSON)
~ Colin Dexter
I renounced complete happiness in order to secure a part of it.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Nuestra envidia siempre dura más que la felicidad de quien envidiamos" (Heráclito)
~ Unknown
To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting
~ Heraclitus
Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.
~ Heraclitus
To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul.
~ Heraclitus
The number of foggy days over the city is never reported, reportedly. But take it from me— there's enough to satisfy everyone, and dissatisfy somebody.
~ Herb Caen
It does not matter whether or not you are an experienced electronics hobbyist, your success with the circuits in these projects is assured. Proceed with enthusiasm; your reward will be enjoyment, as well as deep personal satisfaction.
~ Unknown
Und ganz am Ende, in den freien Raum unter dem letzten Marchen, hatte sie mit ihrer windschiefen Schrift geschrieben: Und sie lebten glucklich und zufrieden. Paul und Ida auch.
~ Unknown
Timelessness is the ideal of pleasure.
~ Herbert Marcuse
the optimal goal is the replacement of false needs by true ones, the abandonment of repressive satisfaction.
~ Herbert Marcuse