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• The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Art, Science, History

  Hippolyte Taine (1908). “Life and Letters of H. Taine: 1870-1892”

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• The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.

  William C. Menninger

  Inspirational, Self, People

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• Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

  Albert C. Barnes

  Art, Men, Study

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• We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

  PZ Myers

  Religion, Atheism, Rewards

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• We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people are satisfied, and a world that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized. This is entirely doable.

  Lester R. Brown

  Inspiring, Thinking, Support Systems

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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

  Believe, Addiction, Desire

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• I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

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• Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Powerful, Hard Work

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• Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.

  Tony Robbins

  Discipline, Growth, Discomfort

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• I don't want to give my opponent the satisfaction of watching me celebrate, which would make it look like a big deal that I beat him.

  Brent Metcalf

  Wrestling, Giving, Looks

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• We would like you to reach the place where you're not willing to listen to people criticize one another... where you take no satisfaction from somebody being wrong... where it matters to you so much that you feel good, that you are only willing to think positive things about people... you are only willing to look for positive aspects; you are only willing to look for solutions, and you are not willing to beat the drum of all of the problems of the world.

  Esther Hicks

  Letting Go, Thinking, People

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• And that is the trouble with all lovers: they want more love, because they don't understand that the real desire is not for more love, but for something more than love. Their language ends with love; they don't know any way that is higher than love, and love does not satisfy. On the contrary, the more you love the more thirsty you become. At the fourth center of love, one feels a tremendous satisfaction only when energy starts moving to the fifth center.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Real, Life Changing

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• People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Prayer, Islamic

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• This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Wisdom, Real

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• Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

  Denis Waitley

  Success, Important, Literature

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• All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.

  Greta Garbo

  Men, Heartless, Want

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• Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.

  Jim Rohn

  Respect, Greatness, Ethics

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• It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Desire, Desirable

  "Joyful Christian".

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• My goal in life is to leave behind a safe and healthy world for our children. Before I leave this world, I want to be satisfied that at least I tried. I know I can make a difference, even if it might only be a small one.

  Maisie Shiell

  Children, Health, Differences

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• Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving Up, Mean, Simplicity

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• There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to value highly the fact that a river runs unimpeded for a distance... They are beginning to obtain deep satisfaction from the fact that a herd of elk may be observed in back country, on ancestral ranges, where the Indians once hunted them. They are beginning to seek the healing relaxation that is possible in wild country. In short, they want it.

  Olaus Murie

  Running, Country, Distance

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• For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction. I see this aim as being scientific and artistic achievements, which place the game of chess on a par with other arts.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Success, Art, Games

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• What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and an ability to convince them that what they are being taught is deadly serious

  Joseph Epstein

  Teacher, Teaching, Taught

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• A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

  William Matthews

  Art, Pride, Men

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• I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation... time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock... I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Thoughtful, Views

  "The San Francisco Examiner" Newspaper, August 26, 1928.

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