Quotes about Satisfaction

Beneath our questions about God's generosity and his care for our needs is something darker. What we really care about is our wants.

But the point is that we live in a culture that idolizes happiness, and if we idolize happiness, it will always elude us.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

I always feel how necessary you are to me. But when you are absent, I become still more sensible of it and look around in vain for that satisfaction which you alone can bestow.

I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?'

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

I'll say I'm happy doing my thing. No one says 'no comment' anymore.

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

I enjoy what I do so much. There's people out there who don't like what they do, but I'm fortunate. I have nothing to complain about.

However much human ingenuity may increase the treasures which nature provides for the satisfaction of human needs, they can never be sufficient to satisfy all human wants; for man, unlike other creatures, is gifted and cursed with an imagination which extends his appetites beyond the requirements of subsistence. Human