Quotes about Satisfaction

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Treat what you don't have as nonexistent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you'd crave them if you didn't have them. But be careful. Don't feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them—that it would upset you to lose them.

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

Last year I abstained this year I devour without guilt which is also an art

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

Which does a man prefer? Bacon and eggs, or worship? Sometimes one, sometimes the other, depending how hungry he is.

This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.

No one ever told you greed and hunger are not the same.

Nothing helps gluttony along so well as eating food you don't have to pay for yourself

I admit I relish it, this lick of dissipation.

Hungry, and also sad. Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.