Satisfaction Quotes

"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."

John Green

"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."

G.K. Chesterton

"[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever."

Lev Grossman

"If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back."

Holly Black, Tithe

"My vacation wasn’t long enough—and neither was my penis. Two weeks is just too short to satisfy one woman all night long."

Jarod Kintz

"Why pay for an undesirable outcome with someone else? For the same money, you could have paid me to stay at home and do nothing."

Jarod Kintz

"He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing ."

Epicurus

"Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied."

Amit Ray

"Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are."

Brandon Sanderson

"Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied."

Zadie Smith

"he who is greedy is always in want"

Horace

"It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied."

Santosh Kalwar

"You will never get everything in life but you will get enough."

Sanhita Baruah

"Love yourself deeply and be satisfied with the amazing life you create."

Amy Leigh Mercree

"Animals do it largely for the REPRODUCTION, but so-called Social Animals (People) do it regularly thinking that it will give them SATISFACTION."

Anuj Somany

"When a bumptious person can’t satiate oneself with an empty praise from others, s/he may go a step further to organize a get-together to bring all people of own nature under a single roof to meet, deliberate, celebrate, collaborate, greet, treat , appreciate or even felicitate one another."

Anuj Somany

"The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous."

Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

"Ambition is a stairway that never ends."

Joyce Rachelle

"Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have."

Sanchita Pandey, Voyage to Happiness!

"But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted."

Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

"How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows"

Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

"God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, "Be still and know that I am God!"

Charles R. Swindoll

"Materialistic things cannot make you truly happy; it’s your faith in God that can bring real satisfaction. And ofcourse, the love you give and receive will fill your life with cheer as well as laughter."

Latika Teotia

"It’s true that many overly negative people actually fear letting go of their negativity, and it’s because it has become a part of their identity. If this is the case, make it a smoother transition by releasing and replacing one negative opinion at a time. It certainly is an identity shift, but it’s one that brings greater fulfillment and life satisfaction."

Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace

"Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for."

Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

"She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!"

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all."

Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation

"You can never get enough of what you really don't want. Identify what it is you're actually craving. This will save Time, Energy and Resources."

Izey Victoria Odiase

"Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in our lives."

Kamand Kojouri

"Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In that, it is the pursuit to end all pursuits."

Majid Kazmi, The First Dancer: How to be the first among equals and attract unlimited opportunities

"Frustration... when our happiness or sadness looses control. The blissful intensity of sensations, the disappointing realisation that dissatisfaction is not enough."

Strohberry

"In a relationship, prudent application of the gray theory is a key ingredient in assuring years of happiness; “till death do us part”. Balance is at the center of success, satisfaction and a lifetime of love."

Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

"In the architecture of their life some may display Potemkin happiness in view of hiding the dark features of their fair weather relationship, preferring to set up a window dressing of fake satisfaction rather than being rejected as emotional outcasts. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")"

Erik Pevernagie

"The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money."

Sunday Adelaja

"Be happy, not contented."

Biju Paulose

"Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive"

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive"

Aaron Lauritsen

"The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite."

Aaron Lauritsen

"There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

"Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too."

Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

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