(473 quotes found)
“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.”
Bertolt Brecht
“One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.”
John Piper
“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
Salvador Dalí
“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
Theodore Isaac Rubin
“To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home”
Hal Borland
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde
“The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.”
Aleister Crowley
“Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.”
Denis Waitley