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• Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Apathy, Foolish

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• My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

  Faye Wattleton

  Commitment, Army, Volunteer

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• What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

  C. S. Lewis

  Doe

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.128, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

  Anne Frank

  Motivational, Positive, Work

  Anne Frank (1959). “Works”

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  Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

  Erich Fromm

  Effort, Greed, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.121, Open Road Media

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  Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Know what your customers want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet.

  Kevin Stirtz

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Loyal Customers

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• There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Feelings

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• No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Being Yourself, Thinking

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• Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Nature

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• The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

  Mark Nepo

  Keys, Knowing, Joy

  Mark Nepo (2012). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want By Being Present in the Life You Have”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• I'm never satisfied with what I do. I always think I can do it a lot better.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Thinking, African American

  Interview with Sylvie Simmons, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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• Happiness is wanting what you have.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Happiness, Happy, Desire

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Achingly Alice”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

  John Piper

  God, Christian, Religious

  John Piper (2005). “For Your Joy”

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• There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.

  Stacie Orrico

  Inspirational, Life, Song

  Song: More to Life, Album: Stacie Orrico

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• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  Walt Whitman

  Spiritual, Truth, Soul

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press

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• There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Expectations, Challenges, Greater

  Baccalaureate address as President of Yale, June 12, 1966.

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• No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.

  Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres

  Fortune, Intellect, Satisfied

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 690), 1922.

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• There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

  Walter Reuther

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Helping Others

  Walter Reuther (1961). “Selected Papers”, New York : Macmillan

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• Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

  Plutarch

  Balance, Contentment, Obscurity

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• From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

  Andre Gide

  Joy, Despair, Desire

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.65, Vintage

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• There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

  Seneca the Younger

  Companion

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 690-91, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, VI, 1922.

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• You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

  Kirsten Dunst

  Happiness, Simple, Abundance

  "Kirsten Dunst: after the apocalypse" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction

  Kathy Ireland

  Money, Work

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• Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

  John Piper

  Sex, Block, Kitchen

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