Satisfaction Quotes

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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it… — Robert M. Pirsig
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life… — John F. Kennedy
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires… — Arthur Schopenhauer
For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A… — Toni Morrison
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. — Jim Rohn
This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the… — Pam MuÃ±oz Ryan
Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering… — Erich Fromm
I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better… — Nicole Krauss
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and… — Pope John Paul II
Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around… — Paulo Coelho
They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it… — Sigmund Freud
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is… — Douglas Adams
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives… — Jonathan Kozol
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies… — Michel de Montaigne
A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it.… — Dani Shapiro
Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did… — Jane Austen

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