Satisfaction Quotes - Page 19

• One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sister, Book, Smirk

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.98, Рипол Классик

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• Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Self, Judging

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• Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Eye, Home

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated): All 4 Novels and 56 Stories with More Than 480 Illustrations”, p.126, Top Five Books LLC

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• Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.

  John le Carre

  Baby, Book, Home

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• Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.

  W. H. Auden

  Jobs, Pride, Men

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("A Russian Aesthete"), (p. 279), 1973.

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• An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Opposites, Investing

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• I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and "making a buck". My motives and values are very different.

  Ron Conway

  Self, Entrepreneur, Ego

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• So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.

  William H. Gass

  Sleep, Issues, Wish

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• Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

  George Zimmerman

  Perfect, Solitude, Earth

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• I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Heart, Hands, Gowns

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• Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

  George D. Prentice

  Joy, Possession, Materials

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• If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

  Real, Lying, Roots

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• Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Philosophy, Perfect, Solitude

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• We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Done, Satisfied, Wells

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• There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Realization, Might, Moments

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• There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

  Dalai Lama

  Sleep, Men, Doors

  "Your Emotional Fitness: Everything You Need to Know to Live a Life of Abundance". Book by Gary Rubin, p. 173, 2013.

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• For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

  George Berkeley

  Independence, Masters, My Own

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• Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction - one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Giving, Example, Quests

  "Do Both Science and Faith Produce Truth?". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. August 11, 2012.

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• Each and every component that makes up your life experience is drawn to you by the powerful Law of Attraction's response to the thoughts you think and the story you tell about your life. Your money and financial assets; your body's state of wellness, clarity, flexibility, size, and shape; your work environment, how you are treated, work satisfaction, and rewards - indeed, the very happiness of your life experience in general - is all happening because of the story that you tell.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Communication, Thinking

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.

  Lew Wallace

  Sympathy, Taken, Self

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.230, Bible Study Steps

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• Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.

  Jane Garmey

  Creativity, Mean, Garden

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• We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able to cooperate with our education if we go easy on the "blocking" techniques, the outright prohibitions, the "no's" and go heavy on "substitution" techniques, that is, the redirection or certain impulses and the offering of substitute satisfactions.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Block, Offering

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• ... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all.

  Josef Pieper

  Heaven, Connections, Sides

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• As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Compassion, Animal

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• Engage your life with enthusiasm; grasp your life aggressively and squeeze from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Joy, Enthusiasm, Excitement

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