Quotes about Satisfaction

So often we lack desire because our delight is not great enough. God promises us that if we delight in him, we will desire things we need, and he will give them to us.

Contentment is not a popular concept. Our culture actually discourages the idea. People are continually bombarded with the message, "What you have isn't enough. You need more—a bigger house, a better car, a larger salary, whiter teeth, sweeter breath, nicer clothes . . ." The list is endless. But the truth is that possessing healthy contentment is essential to being able to withstand failure. —Failing Forward DECIDE TODAY THAT WHAT YOU HAVE IS ENOUGH.

I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content.

The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasures you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.