Quotes About Satisfaction

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

There is a clarity of design that contributes mightily to the building's satisfaction. The harmony of design, with all the elements balanced in true classical form, is sheer elegance. At every stage horizontally and vertically there is a beginning, middle, and end, an introduction to the theme, a development of the theme, a recapitulation of the theme.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

In general the churches ... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola: they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Those born rich are harder to please than those born poor.

He settles back with a small handful of cashews; dry-roasted, they have a little acid sting to them, the tang of poison that he likes.

In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.

Nature is the index and context of all health and if we have an appetite it is there to be satisfied, satisfying thereby the cosmic order.

Research has found that satisfying relationships are characterized by a simple formula: two people mutually meeting each other's needs.

Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.

So often we fail to acknowledge what we have because we're so concerned about what we want.

The joy and great satisfaction I derived from leadership—working with and teaching others, helping them reach their potential in contributing to the team's common goals

Was it wise of me at all to have confined my career to one small classroom in one small town? Wouldn't I be coming away from my life's work with a higher heart if I hadn't been washing the same blackboard for forty-six years?

See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and to let go of caring whether it will be of use or not. Otherwise, self-involvement and greediness can sneak in and distort your relationship to the work, or the work itself, so that it is off in some way, biased, impure, and ultimately not completely satisfying, even if it is good.

It's not that God, the environment, and other people cannot help us to be happy or find satisfaction. It's just that our happiness, satisfaction, and our understanding, even of God, will be no deeper than our capacity to know ourselves inwardly, to encounter the world from the deep comfort that comes from being at home in one's own skin, from an intimate familiarity with the ways of one's own mind and body.

To break out of this trap of always being driven by our own desires, it is not a bad exercise to ask yourself from time to time, "What is my own way?" "What do I really want?" "Would I know it if I got it?" "Does everything have to be perfect right now, or under my total control right now, for me to be happy?

things already are perfect, perfectly what they are.

Human nature is never satisfied.

In the struggle between the "needs" of the soul and the "wants" of the body, satisfy the soul first for it carries also the riches of the body.

Having riches ultimately means having few needs.

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.