Satisfactions Quotes
52 quotes by 49 authors
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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
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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
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
— Man Ray
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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
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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
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I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.
— R. J. Reynolds
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
— Billy Joel
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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
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A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
— John Steinbeck
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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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