Quotes About Satisfaction

Delayed gratification. Yeah, it makes things sweeter. Wait too long, and what was sweet and creamy can turn sour.

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is at the origin of art—and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas, all done for himself, because he had to. Then complete strangers told him that his book had filled a hole in them, had answered a question, had brought colour to their lives.

The road to happiness, Genevieve, is perhaps the road to oblivion.

Y por supuesto, siempre que hablamos de dinero rápido, arreglos provisionales y placer a corto plazo, estamos hablando de la dopamina.

Happy people have no reason to think. They live rather than question living.

Cut my pie into four pieces, I don't think I could eat eight.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.

Sometimes I wonder if people don't want freedom as much as they want meaning.

Sometimes I wonder if people don't want freedom as much as they want meaning

The stupidity/pleasure axis I apply to popular artists: how much pleasure they give versus how stupid one has to become to receive said pleasure.

At least then, we have the satisfaction of a little short-term pleasure instead of a lifetime of feeling inadequate.

Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

Desiring lasts a long time, demands and requests go on to infinity; fulfillment is short and is meted out sparingly. But even the final satisfaction itself is only apparent; the wish fulfilled at once makes way for a new one.

you don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time" ? Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

Sex is like the cherry on the top of a sundae, but you need to make the sundae first, if you get my drift.

In the day, he thought of nothing; at night, he slept heavily and dreamlessly. Face pink and fat, stomach full, brain empty, he was happy.

one finds great comfort in good dinners

Ah done growed ten feet higher from jus' listenin' tuh you, Janie. Ah ain't satisfied with mahself no mo'. Ah means tuh make Sam take me fishin' wid him after this.

When you hungry it is painful but when de belly too full it painful too.

Now, dat's how everything wuz, Pheoby, jus' lak Ah told yuh. So Ah'm back home agin and Ah'm satisfied tuh be heah. Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons.

He loved my availability and my willingness to please him.

At the end of my career I always wanted to look back and know that I had given it my absolute best.

I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy.