Quotes About Satisfaction

In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

You cannot always have what you want. Sometimes you get what you need.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

Happiness is getting what we want; contentment is wanting what we get.

Contentment comes from a proper relationship to God, not from a response to the circumstances. Our

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

feel on my tongue what I admire." Despite

I couldn't picture myself as a good teacher and didn't want to be a bad one. Meanwhile I fell into proofreading, which led to copy editing, which has proved satisfying and educational. Pity about the summer vacations, though.

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can buy them for 99¢. (about Mcdonalds' apple pies)

Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it.

So annihilation is a kind of laziness. But it still provides the satisfactions of agency: I wreck, therefore I am.

The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

They had no comprehension of why anyone would seek out a film with an unhappy ending or buy a painting that wasn't pretty.

Complacency has a way of restoring itself of its own accord

I did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they are lying. The only good part is having run. In the moment, it's dull and hard as in effortful but not as in difficult to master. It's repetitive. It does not open the floodgates of revelation, as I am you've been led to expect.

Picture how bitterly hordes of the frustrated, disappointed, and dispossessed would greet any complaint about being too satisfied and too wealthy. Be that as it may, it really isn't a very nice sensation not to want anything. Thwarted hopes are no picnic, but desire itself is energizing.

Incredibly, the self-starved never appear capable of taking any pleasure in the very vessel for which they've sacrificed.

It wasn't that eating was so great--it wasn't--but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything that was decidedly less than okay.

I wondered if that wasn't the answer to the mystery, countrywide. It wasn't that eating was so great-it wasn't-but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything else that was decidedly less than okay.

I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so-- what's next?