Quotes About Satisfaction

There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out of wanting what is yours, and still wanting it even if it's not yet there, but it's not envy.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

You can't always get what you want.

I'd rather die than be 45 and still singing 'Satisfaction.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

The three horrors of modern life — talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Curioso ¿por qué?... Después de todo, somos los pobres los más conformes. ¡Y qué remedio, pues!... Verdá es que con eso de la escuela los que han aprendido a ler andan influenciados de cosas imposibles. Hasta mi mujer resulta a veces triste porque dice que quisiera tener alas los domingos.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

The problem arises when people are so fixated on what they want to achieve that they cease to derive pleasure from the present.

Yet even if their advice were to work, what would be the result afterward in the unlikely event that one did turn into a slim, well-loved, powerful millionaire? Usually what happens is that the person finds himself back at square one, with a new list of wishes, just as dissatisfied as before. What would really satisfy people is not getting slim or rich, but feeling good about their lives. In the quest for happiness, partial solutions don't work.

While happiness itself is sought for its own sake, every other goal - health, beauty, money or power - is valued only because we expect that it will make us happy.

The key element of an optimal experience is that it is an end in itself.