Satisfaction proverbs

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◆ True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

- Seneca99

◆ Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

- Eleanor Roosevelt99

◆ More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

- Richard Dawkins99

◆ It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can't think of anything better. It's just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and suddenly the lamp comes in. I had been putting out my eyes over the book of life, and finding nothing to reward me for my pains; but now that I can read it properly I see that it's a delightful story.

- Henry James99

◆ If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

- L. Frank Baum99

◆ If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

- Holly Black99

◆ As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

- Charles H. Spurgeon99

◆ Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

- Ann Brashares99

◆ He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

- Epicurus99

◆ In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.

- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey99

◆ As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

- Mitch Albom99

◆ Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

- Ann Voskamp99

◆ He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

- John Piper99