Quotes About Satisfaction

Money isn't enough. Happiness takes more than a padded bank account.

steps that construction required. He answered her questions and satisfied her curiosity. And she was reluctant to see their excursion end. It had been unexpectedly pleasant. His grandmother was waiting in the living room when they got back. "So there you are." She glared at Wentworth from the sofa, where she was lounging in a

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World. - Ka'a Ort'o, Gnomic Utterances, Civ

The rule was: Lose your temper, lose a customer. She had just proved that rule. It troubled her to realise how very enjoyable it had been.

Done, he said, and laughed.

L'appetit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes by eating. Your appetite will come back, but it must be met halfway. You must want it to come.

She will not be clever, but still, I see no reason why she should not one day lead a satisfying life separately from her sister. Perhaps she might even marry. All men do not seek intelligence in a wife, and Emmeline is very affectionate.

what is money for, if not to get what you want?

I do a job which I ought to find satisfying, and it leaves me bored and empty. A diet of milk and honey, when you have teeth, he observed.

But if we don't prefer things, then we increase our chances to be content.

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending - I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the characters.

So much of me longs to run after him and cry, 'Yes, yes, yes!' A few hours ago, when I wrote I could never mean anything to him, such a chance would have seemed heaven on earth. And surely I could give him - a sort of contentment? That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

What I'd really hate would be the settled feeling, with nothing but happiness to look forward to.

I really am just as discontented, but I don't seem to notice it so much.

And though I cannot honestly say I would ever turn my back on any luxury that I could come by, I do feel there is something a bit wrong in it. Perhaps that makes it all the more enjoyable.

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Sounds like a boring life. I hope it lasts forever, she said.

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

The world was a series of fleeting gratifications.

It is time to "perform," he thought. She would have to be "satisfied." He would have to "service" her. They would make efforts to "interact.