Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.
Food from the platter Water from the rain The subject and the matter I'm going home again Can't sell a leaf to a tree Nor the wind to the atmosphere I know where I am meant to be And I can't be satisfied here
Even if you lie to me. . . that's okay. I'll be satisfied with as much of yourself as you can give me.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!
Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!
I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.
I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.
I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.
Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.
Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again.
I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.
An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.