Quotes About Satisfaction

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

I no longer have it (desire to play).

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.