Quotes About Satisfaction

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

You don't need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Live joyfully, without desire.