Quotes About Satisfaction

desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection—indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring

It didn't seem possible to gain so much happiness from so little.

Of course I am happy here! It's wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!

The kitchen garden satisfies both requirements, a thing 0f beauty and a joy for dinner.

The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we want most of all is fleeting at best.

If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us.

Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.

The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is a prerequisite for having interests at all, a condition that must be satisfied before we can speak of interests in a meaningful way.

There is no sense of loss in this transcendence of the quest to satisfy desires that previously seemed so important or of the pleasures that came from their satisfaction, for enlightenment involves detachment from one's desires.

perfect is the enemy of good.

There's danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can't find joy where we are, we probably won't find it anywhere.

Sometimes what we think we need isn't what we need at all, and what gets thrown in for good measure is that which fills our hearts.

Sometimes what we think we need isn't what we need at all, and what gets thrown in for good measure is that which fills our hearts.

And I finally found a setting for despair." Her dark, pert face showed satisfaction, as if she had achieved something of worth. "So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that's a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything, about staying here on Earth after everybody who's smart has emigrated, don't you think?

The human being has an unfortunate tendency to wish to please.

So I left the TV sound off and I sat down at my mood organ and I experimented. And I finally found a setting for despair. Her dark, pert face showed satisfaction, as if she had achieved something of worth. So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that's a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything, about staying here on Earth after everybody who's small has emigrated, don't you think?

Ve sonunda üzüntünün program?n? buldum." Karanl?k ve küstah bir havaya bürünen yüzü sanki büyük bir zafer kazanm??ças?na tatminkârd?. "Ve her ay iki kez olmak üzere program?ma bu numaray? da katt?m. Bence ayda iki kez olan biten her ÅŸeye üzülmek için yeterli bir süre, sence de öyle deÄŸil mi?

The heart can know peace but the mind cannot be satisfied; the drive to know, to possess intellectual certitude is doomed to failure.

Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.

There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.

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And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.

Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.

This rivalry was hundreds of years old, and very deep and satisfying.