Quotes about Satisfaction

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.

A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

Everything was perfect. I sensed that I knew everything and had no questions to ask.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.