Quotes about Satisfaction

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory. In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good.

Ah, if only one had work of one's own, proper work, decent work—not forced upon one by the griping of one's belly!

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

And that,' put in the Director sententiously, 'that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Has your worship or devotional experience lately provided you with ravishing tastes of what A. W. Tozer called the "piercing sweetness" 7 of Christ, only to leave you with a divine discontent that desires more?

Those who eat too much and those who intentionally eat too little are looking for satisfaction in something other than God.