Quotes About Satisfaction

Never mind dear. . . . It would have been too rich anyway. . . . You eat that and I'll let you run out after dinner and buy some candy." "Oh goody." "But dont eat the icecream too fast or you'll have collywobbles.

I'm going to drink till when I cut myself whiskey runs out. What's the good of blood when you can have whiskey?

His whole life long, even in those few moments when he had experienced some inkling of satisfaction, contentment, and perhaps even happiness, he had preferred exhaling to inhaling—just as he had begun life not with a hopeful gasp for air but with a bloodcurdling scream.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

When we taste something that we think is good, our longings cease to ache, for a minute, but later we find ourselves empty once more, needing to be filled again and again.

I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." (L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

There is a satisfaction we don't want to come to until we come to it in God....[Disappointments] serve to remind us every day that we cannot make life work the way we want....If we'll let it, the disappointment can be God's way of continually drawing us back to himself.

he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.

But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.

Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming. His batrachian lips pursed into a smile, and he dug again into the honey.

But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay for the satisfaction of a passing sexual attraction.

Man is a highly acquisitive creature, brainwashed by most modern societies into believing that the act of acquisition is more enjoyable than the fact of having acquired, that getting beats having got.

The rebel with no specific gift for rebellion is destined to become the drone; and even this metaphor is inexact, since the drone has at least a small chance of fecundating the queen, whereas the human rebel-drone is deprived even of that small chance and may finally see himself as totally sterile, lacking not only the brilliant life-success of the queens but even the humble satisfactions of the workers in the human hive. Such

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

In a happy world, there would be no art. I retreat too often into my imagination. In a happy world, the experience of reality would be enough.

He won't be happy till he gets it, said Michael, at last: The only thing is, you see, he doesn't know what IT is.

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

Practise doing things for yourself and not depending on him to make you happy.

Quando non è soddisfatta di se stessa, è anche incapace di mostrare accettazione e apprezzamento nei confronti del partner. Nei

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.

I learned it is not enough just to be happy with what we have; we must honor our material desires as well.

Money Doesn't Fulfill Emotional Needs Martians tend to think money is the solution to all problems.

I've never understood people who grind through a book they don't really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.