Quotes about Satisfaction

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

When we live in anything less than righteousness, peace and joy, we are not experiencing everything that our Lord paid for.

There are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.