Satisfaction Quotes - Page 18

• In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment.

  Tami Hoag

  Real, Self, Accomplishment

  Tami Hoag (2007). “The Alibi Man”, p.265, Bantam

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• I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.

  Sheila Heti

  Thinking, Work Out, Realizing

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• Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Spiritual, Nature, Views

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?

  Nancy Mairs

  Children, Car, Soul

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• Allah wanted the people who have made sins to turn from their sins and make up for them in order to be near to Allah through gaining His satisfaction, for He has promised to accept their repentance and forgive the sinner.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Order, People, Forgiving

  "The mutual love between Allah and His servants". english.bayynat.org.lb.

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• Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action  (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Powerful, Learning, Heart

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• What counts is a way to get along with people that will bring us personal satisfaction and, at the same time, not trample upon the egos of those we deal with.

  Les Giblin

  People, Ego, Way

  Les Giblin (1956). “How to Have Confidence and Power In Dealing With People”, p.15, Les Giblin Books

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• For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

  Tom Hollander

  People, Complacency, Aspiration

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• Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.

  Cornelia Parker

  Sacrifice, Heaven, Contentment

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• Art is not for the personal satisfaction of one or the other, but art wants to return all what's in life... Art wants to give back everything what's in our lives. The more comprehensive the artist stands in life the more powerful his work will speak, and therefore a work of art is a measure of the mental size of his creator.

  Bram van Velde

  Art, Powerful, Giving

  "Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger", Deurne, p. 44, 1994.

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• there's a lot more satisfaction in thinking about money than in spending it, if people only knew.

  Josephine Pinckney

  Money, Thinking, People

  Josephine Pinckney (1948). “Great Mischief”, New York : Viking Press

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• The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

  Teju Cole

  Morning, Mean, Emotional

  Teju Cole @tejucole, twitter.com. March 8, 2012.

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• If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connexion with the capital of the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction to the prince and people, he made a very false estimate of his own character, and of the manners of Antioch. The warmth of the climate disposed the natives to the most intemperate enjoyment of tranquillity and opulence; and the lively licentiousness of the Greeks was blended with the hereditary softness of the Syrians.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, People, History

  Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1857). “The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.174

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• Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. You will always meet obstacles to overcome. The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to deal with problems. Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way. And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Real, Greatness, Sailing

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• Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

  Edith Hamilton

  Plato, Believe, Reality

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Echo of Greece”, New York : W. W. Norton

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• Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.

  Jeffrey Toobin

  Believe, Giving, Accomplishment

  "On Becoming a Lawyer" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Happiness doesn't come from making a fortune and owning lots of possessions. 'Stuff' doesn't bring happiness. Family, friends, good health and the satisfaction that comes from making a positive difference are what really matter.

  Richard Branson

  Differences, Matter, Stuff

  "The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Sabian Phippen, theworldly.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• There's no better satisfaction than watching the people around you, who have worked day and night to get something right, realising the dream.

  Richard Branson

  Dream, Night, People

  Interview with Harry Jarman, www.thegentlemansjournal.com.

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• The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Integrity, Struggle, Independent

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• I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. When we caress her, she stretches herself and arches her back responsively; but this is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Dog, Silly, Sleep

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• Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Animal, Dry Up

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• At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.

  Paulo Freire

  Effort, Wavering, Philosopher

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• I don't get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to do what has to be done for us to win. That might be anything at the time - defense, rebounding, passing. I get great satisfaction out of being a team player.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Team, Winning, Player

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• The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Air, Way

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.72

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• To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Mean, Self, Soul

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