Quotes About Satisfaction

Give the lady what she wants!

If we're satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we've exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we've always done. If we're dissatisfied, we may go to the other extreme, falling for any and every idea, never pursuing one idea long enough so that it takes root and actually shapes a recognizably new us.

Getting better is its own reward. If we do that, we can never feel cheated.

The answers were never about money. They were always about happiness, relationships, following dreams, and meaning.

I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, He said to me, "You must not ask for so much." And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?" —Leonard Cohen, "Bird on a Wire

The Great Western Disease is "I'll be happy when…" This is our belief that happiness is a static and finite goal, within our grasp when we get that promotion, or buy

If we're satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we've exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we've always done.

There is immeasurable satisfaction—even pleasure—in taking a big risk and fighting a battle you believe in. It's your life, your call. No one else can make it for you. AIWATT

we go through life grumbling about what should be at the expense of accepting what is

Most people go through their whole lives," John went on, "and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you still want more! It's like God gives you a brownie, I mean a really good brownie, but you can't be content with it. You want the whole pan of brownies. Nobody gets that.

I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the body could do, and what would give me satisfaction - emotionally, dramatically and bodily. But I did not ever dream of establishing a technique. I still can't believe anything like that happened.

Sociopathy stands alone as a "disease" that causes no dis-ease for the person who has it, no subjective discomfort. Sociopaths are often quite satisfied with themselves and with their lives, and perhaps for this very reason there is no effective "treatment.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Rich girls are a pain in the arse in the sack:

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.' 

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled" Barack Obama, US President

If a man can eat his fill and have a willing bedmate in the same place every night, he quickly grows lazy.

We desire whatever it is—the place, the person, the thing, the period in our lives—we're convinced we're lacking. The

trying to take satisfaction in life from the numbers you ring up is ultimately no more successful than making survival your goal.

We exalt our calling, not to gain glory among men, or money, or satisfaction, or favor, but because people need to be assured that the words we speak are the words of God. This is no sinful pride. It is holy pride.

The vanity and insatiability of the human heart are unspeakable. What a man has does not please him; what he does not have, that he yearns for.

Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.

Artists never finish a project — they just abandon it.

then I'd worry that my coffee would be muddy and my croissants burnt and he'd only give me the baguettes with the misshaped ends. Life wouldn't be worth living.