Quotes About Satisfaction

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

The satisfaction earned by the striving can be whatever furnishes the strongest incentive to the child, for example, extra pleasures or possessions for a sensing child, special freedoms or opportunities for an intuitive, new dignity or authority for a thinker, and more praise or companionship for a feeling type.

I hope you're happy, darling.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.

Desires are already memories.

La ciudad se te aparece como un todo en el que ningún deseo se pierde y del que tú formas parte, y como ella goza de todo lo que tú no gozas, no te queda sino habitar ese deseo y contentarte.

Non era molto, ma a me che non cercavo altro che immagini da tenere negli occhi, forse bastava.

Forse pagavo la felicità con la rinuncia a capire quello che vivevo

L'uomo contento non aveva camicia.

Penso che la sigaretta abbia un gusto più intenso quand'è l'ultima. Anche le altre hanno un loro gusto speciale, ma meno intenso. L'ultima acquista il suo sapore dal sentimento della vittoria su sè stesso e la speranza di un prossimo futuro di forza e di salute. Le altre hanno la loro importanza perchè accendendole si protesta la propria libertà e il futuro di forza e di salute permane, ma va un po' più lontano.

Complete freedom consists of being able to do what you like, provided you also do something you like less.

Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.

Growth has become addictive. Like heroin addiction, the habit distorts basic value judgments. Addicts of any kind are willing to pay increasing amounts for declining satisfactions. They have become tolerant to escalating marginal disutility. They are blind to deeper frustration because they are absorbed in playing for always mounting stakes.

The hope has vanished that the problem of justly distributing goods can be sidetracked by creating an abundance of them. The cost of the minimum packages capable of satisfying modern tastes has skyrocketed, and what makes tastes modern is their obsolescense prior even to satisfaction.

Above all, by depriving people of the ability to satisfy personal needs in a personal manner, radical monopoly creates radical scarcity of personal--as opposed to institutional-service.

No man can lose what he never had.

We are put together in such a way that although we can be pushed and pulled and drowsied by flickering images, we cannot be satisfied by them; we know too much even in oblivion. Fallow knowledge troubles our sleep. We lie under the prickling enchantment of the image carved into our hearts, which is stronger than the counterspell and can never be quite scratched out.

Pleasure comes naturally as a by-product of pursuing something else, like the good of another person, and the best way to ruin pleasure is to make it your goal.

Only a fool asks for happiness in this foolish, worn world. We are . . . content . . . together. That is enough for a while.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends.