Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Given the choice between instant gratification and the lasting satisfaction of earning the esteem of someone you respect and admire, all but… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only real satisfaction is live performances. That's when you can actually get some feedback from what you're doing. You get that… — Jeffrey Osborne Copy Share Image
A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been… — Pete Maravich Copy Share Image
To say that worship is either about glorifying God or finding personal satisfaction is to put asunder what God has joined together.… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Trying harder doesn’t always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up. — John Bingham Copy Share Image
I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn't make any… — Larry David Copy Share Image
I didn't have a job in high school. Basketball was work for me; I put in enough hours that it could have… — Dawn Staley Copy Share Image
I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only… — Hayley Westenra Copy Share Image
I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You don't realize how much you have until you don't have it anymore. — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well. — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
