Satisfaction Quotes - Page 12

No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands.

There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the answers - because we will never have those - but when we know enough to live it right out to the edges, edges sometimes marked by other people, sometimes showing only our own footprints.

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

When we have got it, we want something else.

Respond to your customer's dissatisfactions with precision and power.

Enough is ever-receding.

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

... 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.

Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

The only chance of satisfaction we can imagine is getting more of what we have now. But what we have now makes everybody dissatisfied. So what will more of it do -- make us more satisfied, or more dissatisfied?

My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.