Satisfactions Quotes

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Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the… — J. William Fulbright
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness. — Therese of Lisieux
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. — Man Ray
What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and… — Dan Shaughnessy
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions. — R. J. Reynolds
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are… — Clifton Fadiman
Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest… — David McCullough
The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it. — Kay Ryan
Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute… — Corliss Lamont
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real… — Aphra Behn
Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure… — Alan Keyes
My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that… — Lady Bird Johnson
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food… — Rumi
Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions… — Frank Chodorov
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. — Billy Joel
Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it's also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory — John Steinbeck
The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had no… — Percy Williams Bridgman

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