Quotes about Satisfaction

As long as man sees religion as a source of satisfaction for his own needs, it is not God whom he serves but his own self.

Animal in man is the drive to concentrate on the satisfaction of needs; spiritual in man is the will to serve higher ends, and in serving ends he transcends his needs.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.

A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.