Quotes About Satisfaction

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

Mum, mum, He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all, shall want some.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?

He who desires naught will always be free.

All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.

...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.

Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

He needs little who desires but little.

I get very unsettled by the mess of Christmas. I find the decorations a little bit hard, as my desire for everything to match is never fully satisfied.

Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.