Quotes about Satisfaction

Find joy in the ordinary.

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

How many people are not as good as they could be at their job because they don't love it? They're not passionate about it. If you don't like something, why are you doing it?

Dejection stems from one of two sources—I have either satisfied a lust or I have not had it satisfied. In either case, dejection is the result. Lust means "I must have it at once.

We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God—which is another way of saying that our seeking will always fall short unless God's grace initiates the search and unless God's call draws us to him and completes the search.

Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.

There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.