Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.
He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.
Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing. . . as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.
The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.
I literally and truly don't care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.
Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.
There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.
American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if. . . the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society. . . recognises nothing except the power to acquire. . . No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.
Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.
I can't get no satisfaction.
Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give pleasure to the owner, but in all the rest to the others: what belongs to another rejoices doubly, because it is without the risk of going stale and with the satisfaction of freshness. . . the possession of things not only diminishes their enjoyment, but augments their annoyance, whether shared or not shared.
You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy. '
What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is