The only chance of satisfaction we can imagine is getting more of what we have now. But what we have now makes… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If somebody has an extreme amount of wealth and is not using it for some good purpose, only for their own enjoyment… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view.… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
There’s an old saying: that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I don’t believe that. I think the things that try… — J-Ax Copy Share Image
The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Since 1993, I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough.… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“There was an air of satisfaction to the house at the end of the day. Maybe the day hadn't gone exactly right,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character.… — Suresh Raina Copy Share Image
...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
People in religions that teach that believers in other faiths are condemned, for example, tend to have lower life satisfaction. People who… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Epicurus thought that friendship and conviviality, which require present attention rather than being in an alcoholic stupor, as well as trying to… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The Trio to make a meaningful life are determination, passion and satisfaction. Determination keeps on going. Passion keeps on commitment and satisfaction… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though… — Ernest Wood Copy Share Image
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I watched a little girl cover her face up and leave her hands in front of her mouth. I saw that girl… — Chuck Feeney Copy Share Image
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
We've all got to get together and demand something better out of our government and out of each other. We've got a… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My Lord does not want to know what I have done for Him. He just wants to know how I am. If… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
For me, I guess the main motivation is the satisfaction of finally understanding some tricky mathematical concept or phenomenon and then explaining… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the… — Martin Yan Copy Share Image
