Quotes about Satisfaction

I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.

People are little creatures with big capacities, finite beings with infinite desires, deserving nothing but demanding all. God made people with this huge capacity and desire in order that He might come in and completely satisfy that desire.

The more worldly pleasure we enjoy, the less satisfied and contented we are with life.

Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.

There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're livin'.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind (surprises) if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life -- that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living. I pity the man, black or white, who has never experienced the joy and satisfaction that come to one by reason of an effort to assist in making someone else more useful and more happy.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. —MATTHEW 5:6

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.