Quotes About Satisfaction

Sometimes little is better than nothing at all.

Gloating with witnesses is so much more enjoyable.

He'd spent his life travelling the path of least resistance, taking the easiest of routes, searching for the quickest of solutions, and with Kate, he'd discovered more satisfaction was found in fighting for something, in striving to meet her expectations.

I knew what I possessed was exactly what I wanted, that I desired no more than what I had.

Dont desire much,lest you be greedy.

That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. (Last words.)

The mind wanders when it's never totally satisfied.

Be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." —HEBREWS 13:5 NIV

We are half-hearted creatures," writes Lewis, "fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.  We are far too easily pleased."  Heaven promises a purification, not a mortification, of our deepest desires.

Elle avait ce gout de l'absolu, rien n'etait jamais assez, rien n'etait quelque chose. Quiconque a ce gout de l'absolu, renonce par la meme au bonheur.

Justification is a judicial act of God, in which He declares, on the basis of the righteousness of Jesus Christ, that all the claims of the law are satisfied with respect to the sinner.

I should add that all that my teachers would later teach me of the superiority of character-driven comedy over situation comedy never managed to uproot from me every child's conviction: that those who hurl cream pies at each other's faces are funny in a far more relaxing, and, therefore, at bottom more satisfying way, than the more subtle forms of what is called "wit." In fact, it is quite remarkable that these latter forms usually grow stale in less than a generation.

There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift of awareness.

Before, as much as the hate poisoned me, I think it gave me a kind of satisfaction. I believed hating was the same as getting even, but those I hated didn't even know my feelings. All I did was destroy myself with my hate.

I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash.

It's fun to take a pile of raw materials and make something out of them. The more demanding the work, the greater the satisfaction.

Discontent is only the fear of missing something. Content is the knowledge that you aren't missing anything worth-while.

The only thing money really buys?...Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.

As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake.

If less was more, she had a great deal.

Do you know why we're all happy here, monsieur? Because it's the last house on the road.

It was a post her former colleagues no doubt viewed as a significant step down. But Reine Marie wasn't interested in steps. She'd arrived at where she wanted to be. No more steps." Chapter 1 · Page 5 · Location 101

Gamache bit into a grilled chicken and roasted vegetable baguette and decided he was going to enjoy mealtimes in this place.

Now all I really crave is a good bowel movement.