And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some happiness in order to gain the depth.
I ain't ever satisfied.
I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.
I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works.
I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.
A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
I'm never satisfied with the way I look.
Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile. . . But this happy sensation wears off. After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography: you lust after people and compare your spouse to them. It's impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don't have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse.
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.
I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.
I'm not really satisfied. I've done all right, but there's room for improvement.
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts, which is a neat formulation. But melancholy [men] from the northern mists understand that opinion is all there is. The great questions transcend fact, and discourse is a process of personality. Knowledge cannot respond to knowledge. And wisdom? Is it not opinion refined, opinion killed and resuscitated upward? Maybe Plato would have agreed with this.
If I was completely satisfied with an album, I'd probably give it up, because that'd mean I had attained some kind of state that was greater than I'd ever hope, so I think I'd just give it up. But I don't think that's going to happen.
George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.
May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.
I am satisfied. . . I see, dance, laugh, sing.