Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!

I’m in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn’t have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

It was a pain and an unrest; and it received easement only by the touch of the new god’s presence. At such times love was joy to him, a wild, keen–thrilling satisfaction. But when away from his god, the pain and the unrest returned; the void in him sprang up and pressed against him with its emptiness, and the hunger gnawed and gnawed unceasingly.

You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong – to his own satisfaction. You are anarchists in the realm of thought. And you are mad cosmos-makers. Each of you dwells in a cosmos of his own making, created out of his own fancies and desires. You do not know the real world in which you live, and your thinking has no place in the real world except in so far as it is phenomena of mental aberration.

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

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet

Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat – especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present

I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

Are you happy are you satisfied?

How long can you stand the heat

Favor comes because, for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress, some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment

Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat two frogs, eat the biggest, ugliest one first thing in the morning, and you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that it’s behind you for the rest of the day.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel satisfied with myself. It is my conviction that here are no limits to learning, and that it can never stop, no matter what our age.

I feel endless need to LEARN, to IMPROVE, to EVOLVE, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel SATISFIED with myself

All ideas are second-hand, consciously or unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them.

I eat, sleep and breathe training.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

The perfect happiness of men on the earth (if it ever comes) will not be a flat and solid thing, like the satisfaction of animals. It will be an exact and perilous balance; like that of a desperate romance. Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

The more a man lays stress on false possessions, and the less sensitivity he has for what is essential, the less satisfying is his life. He feels limited because he has limited aims, and the result is envy and jealousy

Be happy, but never satisfied

Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

There is nothing more fulfilling than to serve your country and your fellow citizens and to do it well.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is… The Pump.

It’s not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. You’ll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you’ll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.

Empty orators and silent scholars
died without having understood Being and non-Being.
Ignorants, my brothers, let us continue tasting
the juice of the grape attentively and let
the authorities satisfy themselves
with dry raisins.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction

I know what I want. I have a goal—an opinion. I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I’m doing something for society.

The love of money is either the rapacity of avarice, which can never be satisfied, or the sublime enthusiasm of virtue

I am satisfied that when the soul and body are in health, every other sort of health is superfluous

Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren’t hungry, they wouldn’t work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

I just really love doing what I do.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Be satisfied with what you have

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, ‘And the sun stood still… and hasted not to go down about a whole day’ (Joshua x. 13) and ‘He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time’ (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Growth takes place when the next step forward is subjectively more delightful, more joyous, more intrinsically satisfying than the previous gratification which we have become familiar and even bored.

I don’t know if this is too much for your magazine, but I can actually mentally give myself an orgasm.

Hip-hop originated in the Bronx, which implied virtually everything. I was raised right where hip-hop originated, so I’m satisfied to be here and be able to represent New York in the same manner I do

It is simply crazy; my name happens to be Artist, and I cannot even paint.

I’ve been through struggles, but I turned them into success

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

The only thing that matters is playing. I have enjoyed it since I was a little boy, and I still try to do that every time I go out on to a pitch. I always say that when I no longer enjoy it or it’s no longer fun to do it, then I won’t do it anymore. I do it because I love it and that’s all I care about

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

One of the things I realized is that if you don’t take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up.

Sometimes, you gotta go to a safe spot and just get some peace and rest.

Now each race is different every time because it’s a different journey to get to it – the difficulties you faced getting the car into that position. I manage myself. I chose my team myself. So there’s a huge satisfaction for me.

Everyone has said I got my own sound.

Every day I’m getting shaped and molded. Keepin’ on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more I’m in it, the more I’m practicing and the more I’m advancing.

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.