Quotes about Satisfaction
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
— Aristotle
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
— John Piper
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.
— Henry David Thoreau
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.
— Thomas Paine
There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.
— Nick Vujicic
Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.
— Ellen Glasgow
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
— Victor Hugo
Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach.
— Helen Keller
The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
— Samuel Johnson
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
— Thomas a Kempis
The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
— Thomas a Kempis