Quotes About Satisfaction

It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. In the first case we cook the dish to our own appetite; in the latter nature cooks it for us.

No greater satisfaction exists now than a paragraph well written in honor of something you value.

Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it.

Plain food is quite good enough for me.

Nada ansío de nada, mientras dura el instante de eternidad que es todo, cuando no quiero nada.

una libélula de médula una oruga lúbrica desnuda sólo nutrida de frotes un chupochupo súcubo molusco que gota a gota agota boca a boca la mucho mucho gozo la muy total sofoco

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

La sal de la vida es la felicidad, y la felicidad existe; consiste en darle caza.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

For all too many of these high-born revolutionaries, the main attraction of 'the cause' lay not so much in the satisfaction which they might derive from seeing the people's daily lives improved, as in their own romantic search for sense of 'wholeness' which might give higher meaning to their lives and to end alienation from the world.

Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.

Most people settle in life with no satisfaction. Winners are satisfied without ever settling.

I wish people could accomplish everything they want so they could learn its not everything they need.

Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?

For a consumer society thrives by stoking unquenchable desires into unsustainable cravings and fanning them with an inflated rage for rights. The restlessness it creates by providing false satisfactions and deadening true desires simultaneously fuels the economy and destroys happiness.

all human desires, longings and aspirations point beyond themselves and toward God. The full range and depth of our desires are simply not fully covered by our unbelieving faiths and philosophies; and therefore they are not fully satisfied by what our unbelieving minds insist is true.

We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God—which is another way of saying that our seeking will always fall short unless God's grace initiates the search and unless God's call draws us to him and completes the search.