Quotes About Satisfaction

Hence, the statement that the cost of living is different in different localities only means that the same individual cannot secure the same degree of satisfaction from the same stock of goods in different places.

The first value of money was clearly the value which the goods used as money possessed (thanks to their suitability for satisfying human wants in other ways) at the moment when they were first used as common media of exchange.

A importância dos julgamentos de valor consiste precisamente no fato de que são fontes da ação humana. Guiado por suas avaliações, o homem tenta substituir as condições que julga menos satisfatórias por condições que lhe agradem.

Porque tal es la ley de la democracia económica del mercado. Aquellos que satisfacen las necesidades de un número menor de personas solo recaudan menos votos -dólares- que aquellos que satisfacen las necesidades de más personas.

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. That way, you'll never be disappointed.

But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less.

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. That way, you'll never be dissappointed.

Happiness was relative

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

I feel like I've been starving for decades and he's a feast.

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind.

When you don't have what you want, you have to want what you have.

What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else?

Busy is just a euphemism for being so focused on what you don't have that you never notice what you do. It's a defense mechanism. Because if you stop hustling—if you pause—you start wondering why you ever thought you wanted all those things. I can no longer tell the sky from the sea, but I can hear the waves. A loss of sight; a gain of insight.

F=R/E o, lo que es lo mismo, Felicidad es igual a Realidad dividido por Expectativas)

I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Why do you always get the tired ones when you're ready and the randy ones when you're tired?

My duties were more varied but offered little satisfaction, since the problems that percolated up to me were of the 'the buck stops here' type; those with pleasing, unambiguous solutions were taken care of in the lower echelons.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.

I have my little corner in the literary universe and I'm okay with that

True hunger makes eating more pleasurable, and this sensation better directs us