Quotes About Satisfaction

Labour to get Christ, and through him hopes of heaven, and thou takest the right road to content; thou

Here is godliness in triumph—when the Christian can carve contentment out of God's providence, whatever the dish is that is set before him.

I cannot estimate how much this pleases me. I feel I have succeeded to the idleness of God.

Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.

Frank's wisdom here is worth emphasizing: it is a question of the attitude one takes toward life's challenges and opportunities, both large and small. A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and deepens disappointments; it undermines and diminishes pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction; it may even lead to depression or physical illness.

I think all wishes are the same, really," she continued. "Whether they ask for this, that, or the other, what they are really asking for is happiness.

They want what they don't need, or can't use, or won't ever make them whole.

People who don't know me well wonder that I'd give up my badge for an apron, thinking that flipping burgers is a big step down. If they asked me, which they don't, I would tell them that when a man stumbles onto happiness, he'd be a fool to pass it by. It's as simple as that. Sam's Place makes me happy.

When your ambition is so wrought that you're never satisfied, it takes a load of pressure off. Every spot on the ladder is equally disappointing because it is not the rung above. Which means I've perfectly filled my potential; I've reached as high as I'll ever get, the point of not good enough.

Who is rich? As the scholar Ben Zoma once said, 'He who is content with his lot.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

This day, I saw clearly that I should never be happy, yea, that God Himself could not make me happy, unless I could be in a capacity to 'please and glorify Him forever.' Take away this and admit me into all the fine heavens that can be conceived of by men or angels, and I should still be miserable forever.

My soul was this day, at turns, sweetly set on God. I longed to be with Him that I might behold His glory. I felt sweetly disposed to commit all to Him, even my dearest friends, my dearest flock, my absent brother, and all my concerns for time and eternity. Oh, that His kingdom might come in the world; that they might all love and glorify Him, for what He is in Himself; and that the blessed Redeemer might 'see the travail of his soul, and be satisfied! Oh, come, Lord Jesus, come quickly! Amen.

The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled.

If you organize your life around your own wants, other people become objects for the satisfaction of your own desires. Everything is coldly instrumental. Just as a prostitute is rendered into an object for the satisfaction of orgasm, so a professional colleague is rendered into an object for the purpose of career networking, a stranger is rendered into an object for the sake of making a sale, a spouse is turned into an object for the purpose of providing you with love.

Companionate love is the calmer state that comes after, filled more with quiet satisfaction, friendship, and a gentler happiness