Quotes About Satisfaction

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this was what you wanted.

When I left, Lydia was prattling about new clothes for her wedding and expressing her own satisfaction that she, the youngest of the Bennet sisters, would be the first of them to be married. Wickham smiled indulgently and said pretty things to her. I, disgusted with them both, was persuaded they deserved each other.

You do best at what you enjoy doing most. It's how you feel about yourself that counts most.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

Considering what short lived, weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure?

We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed of this, we turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how to not-need.

The physical food transubstantiates in our minds into something more ethereal, of human and emotional nurturance, a sense that our hungers are being sated. Even if you are just stuffing handfuls of fries into your mouth on a binge, you still feel that some emptiness, if briefly, is being filled.

We deserve more. Vastly more. Sufficiency, plenty, abundance. Not the denial of body that is no more than a metaphor for our denial of self.

we are all driven by the urge to meet our needs. What if one of our most fundamental needs is to have things be just so?

If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.

Yum yum crumbs!

My dream is to die thinking "Wow, that was fun! I'm tired.

Mi sueño es morir diciendo "Ah, fue muy divertido, pero ya no puedo más".

Non c'è nessuno così grande come chi non cerca di realizzare niente.

Gewiß, ich bin sehr happy: Doch glücklich bin ich nicht.

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

Antes de conocer el sabor de las fresas con azúcar, uno no las pide todos los días.

Ahí fue cuando empecé a disfrutar de la venganza que, sin duda, y se diga lo que se diga, es felicísima y reporta una muy grande satisfacción.

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.