Quotes about Satisfaction

Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more.

So if you're living your life around a temporary role and allowing your treasure chest to remain barren in terms of your only real permanent role, then you're letting yourself be seduced by the culture and robbed of the true richness of your life—the deep and lasting satisfaction that only comes through family relationships.

Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival—to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

If you are not doing what you love, then start doing it, even if it is only part-time.