Quotes About Satisfaction

Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts.

She took a little pleasure in defying him. And it was a harmless defiance, especially if he didn't know she was here.

I liked the food I got; I did not know any other, and hunger is a good cook. I liked our shack. Its being overcrowded only meant womblike security to me. Again

I had food, love, a place to sleep, and a warm, potbellied, wood-fed stove to sit near in the winter. I needed nothing more. Finally

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When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.

When Jesus isn't our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.

When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

I think I don't care anymore, as long as you're in my arms.

She wouldn't like where we were going, which brought me some satisfaction

Am I never to meet the backbone of Venda, or will I only be pointed at with your long, bony finger?" He looked down briefly at his gloved hands, and a sliver of satisfaction warmed me.

Wanting less is probably a better blessing than having more.

To be happy: Don't do whatever you like; Like whatever you do.

What is it we desire? pleasure, happiness. What! the pleasure of an instant, only; or that which is more solid and permanent?

Like children, we have dreamt, that what gratifies our desires, or contributes to our convenience to-day, will prove equally useful and satisfactory to-morrow, without reflecting on the growth of the body, the change of humours, the new objects, and the new situations, which every succeeding hour brings in its train.

I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.

How can you tell when a piece is finished?'I asked. 'You can't,' he said flatly. 'All you can tell is when you can't do any more to it. And then you need to stop because if you don't, you will spoil it.

What a pity that men couldn't find such satisfactions without killing so many of their fellows.

Small pleasures are the best because they're everywhere. Anyone who needs grand spectacles is destined to be disappointed much of the time.

For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

If it please the Devil, one day I may have happiness. That will be all-sufficient. I shall then analyze no more. I shall be a different being. But meanwhile I shall eat.

What do you most wish for, Izzy?" "Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

In a three-year period, we had 78 projects, and 77 of them were delivered on time, on budget, and in scope. Then I surveyed the customers and found out that none of them was happy!