“Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction not only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy these benefits.” ThinkingI CanBodyCareOrderOpportunityEnjoyOffersAchievementBenefitsSatisfactionRhythmPlentyEchoesCleanlinessFreshnessHousekeepingSavoringRhythm Of Life Author:Cheryl Mendelson
“What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.” OpportunityPoorAirPlantSatisfactionMortalsCompareVesselNeighbourConceitDoings Book:Scenes of Clerical Life Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.” UseOpportunityImagineMissingEternalSatisfactionPunishmentRepentanceSentimentsBenevolenceScarceMissing It Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.” OpportunityIndividualClassEconomicSecuritySatisfactionVarietySufficientLeisureEconomic SecuritySatisfaction In Life Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.” IfsGivingEnoughOpportunityWinningJokesSatisfactionCompensationGood WillInjuredRestitutionPersonal Satisfaction Author:Friedrich Nietzsche