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Quotes About Satisfaction

We were put here for a reason, We all have a purpose, the goal isn't wealth, it's happiness.
~ Unknown
Life is so confusing, what we want we don't get, what we get we are not satisfied with, what we expect never happens and what we hate generally repeats!
~ Unknown
I did what I liked. If you had asked me, I would have said I was happy. Yet I always remembered.
~ Madeline Miller
Una barca ben costruita, un albero ben cresciuto, una storia ben raccontata, tutti questi per lui erano piaceri.
~ Madeline Miller
I had fed off that look once, when I had been starving and thought such crumbs a feast.
~ Madeline Miller
I could see the tug of a smile at the corner of his mouth. He was enjoying it, licking the crowd's worship off his lips.
~ Madeline Miller
Name one hero that was happy.
~ Madeline Miller
No soul wished to be sent early to the endless gloom of our underworld. Exile might satisfy the living, but it does not appease the dead.
~ Madeline Miller
Name one hero who was happy...
~ Madeline Miller
He said, "Then we will go back. We will go back until you are satisfied." It was so simple. If you want it, I will do it. If it will make you happy, I will go with you. Is there a moment that a heart cracks?
~ Unknown
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
~ Mae West
Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
~ Mae West
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
~ Mae West
What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more.
~ Mae West
The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy.
~ Maggie Nelson
And if 'saturation' means that one simply could not absorb or contain one single drop more, why does 'saturation' not bring with it a connotation of satisfaction, either in concept, or in experience?
~ Maggie Nelson
Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.
~ Maggie Nelson
What if where I am is what I need?
~ Maggie Nelson
So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself.
~ Maggie Nelson
185. Perhaps this is why writing all day, even when the work feels arduous, never feels to me like "a hard day's work." Often it feels more like balancing two sides of an equation - occasionally quite satisfying, but essentially a hard and passing rain. It, too, kills the time.
~ Maggie Nelson
Silverman also contends that a baby's demands on the mother can be "very flattering to the mother's narcissism, since it attributes to her the capacity to satisfy her infant's lack, and so—by extension—her own.
~ Maggie Nelson
What if where I am is what I need?' Before you, I had always thought of this mantra as a means of making peace with a bummer or even a catastrophic situation. I never imagined it might apply to joy, too
~ Maggie Nelson
What if where I am is what I need? Before you, I had always thought of this mantra as a means of making peace with a bummer or even catastrophic situation. I never imagined it might apply to joy, too.
~ Maggie Nelson
Its happiness has been of a more palpable and undeniable and unmitigated quality than any I've ever known. For it isn't just moments of happiness, which is all I thought we got. It's a happiness that spreads.
~ Maggie Nelson