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Quotes About Satisfaction

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
~ Robert Burns
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
~ William Shakespeare
I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.
~ David Grubbs
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
~ Peter Porter
There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.
~ Mark Strand
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
~ Phil Ochs
They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.
~ Winston Churchill
Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
~ Tony Benn
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
~ Aristophanes, The Knights
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
~ Adam Smith
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
~ John Lennon
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
~ Richard Wagner
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
~ Anwar Sadat
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
~ Karl Abraham
Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
~ Carolyn Wells
Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.
~ Heather Williams
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
~ Saint Augustine
Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.
~ Confucius
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich
~ Su Shi
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
~ Kin Hubbard