Quotes About Satisfaction

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world. ("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight")

Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.

Do you know when she started praising the Wallers so highly?" Mama went on. "The day she left them. As long as she was there, she had nothing but complaints. The Wallers couldn't compare with the van Hooks where she'd been before. But at the van Hooks she'd actually been miserable. Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It's something we make inside ourselves.

Yes," he said. "And it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It's the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you." And I was satisfied. More than satisfied—wonderfully at peace.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

I want to be the girl with the most cake.

The trouble with success is that it's never enough. You always want more.

We can be completely ignorant about how or why something works and yet still relish the results.

Godliness with contentment is rare.

But if we've honestly done everything we can, by definition we can't do anything more.

Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have

Never before have so many people had so much and felt so dissatisfied. No wonder we often feel so dissatisfied. No matter how much we have, it can't compare to what others appear to have.

On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.

Having more of this world never fulfills. Only more of Christ does.

Earth is not heaven. It was never meant to be. No new car, new house, new living room furniture, new kitchen appliances, new clothes, new hair, new baby, new vacation, new job, new income, new husband, or new anything will ever satisfy us, because we were not made for the things of this world.

Normally, we're never satisfied.

If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.

God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what you can share.

Paul wrote these words: "I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through [Christ] who gives me strength" (Phil. 4:12–13).

way." You will battle with discontent until you let Christ be all that you need.

One can be truly happy only as long as one does not know how truly happy one is. Having

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