Quotes About Satisfaction

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

And these two things, the love of God and Christ's satisfaction, had to and could go hand in hand because we were simultaneously the object of his love as his creatures and the object of his wrath as sinners.

The central facts of the incarnation, satisfaction, and resurrection are the fulfillment of the three great thoughts of the Old Covenant, the content of the New Testament, the Kerygma of the Apostles, the foundation of the Christian Church, the marrow of its history of dogma and the centre of the history of the world.

Hier en daar een antenne knakken, een achteruitkijkspiegel afbreken, een deuk stompen, een kras maken? (...) Als zoiets je enige vorm van voldoening geeft, ben je een stompzinnige idioot.

geef me nu eindelijk wat ik altijd al had

Boundary-oriented stability tends to minimize future regrets rather than maximize present satisfaction.

If I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

Such a person does not cease longing after insatiable appetites, struggling in the darkness without satisfaction. This tortures him and makes the fire grow upon him all the more.

Severing all ties with the family that had been so close to his for two generations was an added satisfaction to the feeling of true achievement Rask experienced, for the first time in his life, when he took the reins of his affairs.

Hunger is not an object.

when pleasures you deny yourself turn out not to be pleasures, you're doubly destroyed, for not only do you lose an illusion, you also feel futile

because we must please her, you know?

If what you buy is good, what you make will be good regardless of the presentation. We may eat with our eyes, but we enjoy with our taste buds.

Enjoying life is important to everyone.

Desire is that animal that remains fit only through undernourishment.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Be contented when you have got all you want.

That's what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it's sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.

There is no banquet too abundant for a starving man.

It occurs to me that maybe desire isn't something overindulging helps. Maybe it is not unlike mithridatism; maybe I took a killing dose when I should have been poisoning myself slowly, one kiss at a time.