Satisfaction Quotes

“Smile if you want to. Grimace if you’re told to.”
― C. Toni Graham

“What is this human condition? Why are we never satisfied with the choices we make? What would it take to make us really happy?”
― Abhaidev, The World's Most Frustrated Man

“She grinned. "Oh, yes. I mean, if you want to."

"I'd rather buy you anything else."

"Too bad." Olive jumped to her feet and headed for the counter, tugging at his sleeve and forcing him to stand with her. Adam followed meekly, mumbling something about black coffee that Olive chose to ignore.

Enough, she repeated to herself. What you have now, it will have to be enough.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“Our education system would be betraying its master, capitalism, if it taught us to be content with what we have. Or if it told us about the fruits of practicing minimalism.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A millionaire who is a minimalist feels and is a trillion times richer than billionaires who are not minimalists.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is not money, fame, or power that creates positive emotional energy. It's happiness, and happiness does not cost any money. Everyone needs to feel happy.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“It amounted to a pornography of being right. No orgasm would be as satisfying as proving everyone else wrong.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“The message of sacrifice is that the greatest fullness imaginable can only arise from the willingness to experience the greatest emptiness possible.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Most people want their prayers to end up being answered, so they can finally start praying new prayers.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Doing it this way has several advantages when it comes to perseverance. It gives you a process to follow. It gives you a series of intermediate goals. And it gives you the satisfaction of meeting these smaller challenges along the way. If your goal is to get a little stronger and a little fitter every day, it’s easier to see the sort of progress that helps sustain a commitment.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“Achievement and satisfaction are dependent on the sense of purpose. They can come from a career, work or leisure activities.”
― Steve Peters

“Our being satisfied eventually irritates our mind.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When we spend time at work that lacks meaning, we feel useless and unimportant, and so we frequently act that way.”
― Pat Love, Never Be Lonely Again: The Way Out of Emptiness, Isolation, and a Life Unfulfilled

“We, as humans, are made to seek, love, and strive for what is perfect and what is permanent. We are made to seek what’s eternal. We seek this because we were not made for this life. Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being. The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on—in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

“Life is uncertain; make a few things certain!'

These things are:
1. Financial Stability
2. Values Adherence
3. Inner Happiness
4. Peace of Mind”
― Rahul Kumar Jain, The Virtues of a Self-Satisfied Life

“Happiness is available globally in abundance and is affordable to all because it is hidden in tiny little things. Happy feelings constitute a human fuel that is needed for all of us to live a fulfilled life.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Happiness is like oxygen. It's free and is equally accessible to all of us.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Even though it is logically obvious that we must accept equilibrium, we are not built to be satisfied with it because being unsatisfied has been an excellent strategy for the last several billion years.”
― Heather E. Heying, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

“The best way to end up having nothing is to get everything that you want.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Taking satisfies you. Giving satisfies two.”
― Maxime Lagacé

“If your house is neatly organized, family members are caring, and you enjoy delicious home-cooked food while working from home, then the street you live in should not matter.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“More does not make anyone happy. To be happy, just be happy unconditionally!”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“If happiness is coming with conditions, it's not happiness!”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Wisdom is knowing eternal satisfaction is impossible.”
― Maxime Lagacé

“Oh, a barn, or stable, hedge, or any other place is desirable, if God is there.”
― David Brainerd, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

“This day, I saw clearly that I should never be happy, yea, that God Himself could not make me happy, unless I could be in a capacity to 'please and glorify Him forever.' Take away this and admit me into all the fine heavens that can be conceived of by men or angels, and I should still be miserable forever.”
― David Brainerd, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

“The goal of adulthood is to let go of the other possible existences and to make the best of the one. A successful adult is one who understands that it doesn't matter which life you ultimately pick, only that you live it well.”
― Chris Ballas

“Adolescence is supposed to be an identity Schrodinger's Cat: multiple simultaneous states which eventually collapse into only one. The goal of adulthood is to let go of the other possible existences and to make the best of the one. A successful adult is one who understands that it doesn't matter which life you ultimately pick, only that you live it well.”
― Chris Ballas

“It’s not enough for French mothers to have pleasures and interests apart from their children. They also want their kids to know about these things. They believe it’s burdensome for a child to feel that she’s the sole source of her mother’s happiness and satisfaction. (A Parisian mother I know told me she was going back to work partly for her daughter’s sake.)”
― Pamela Druckerman, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

“I stayed the course of my own North Star, and it led me to a life of personal satisfaction. We are all responsible to ourselves for finding inner peace and standing by our convictions, regardless of what anyone else thinks.”
― Michael Clinton