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Source: Path To Tranquility

“I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.”

Source: The vale of laughter

“Happiness arises as a result of different causes and conditions. If you harm someone out of anger, you may feel some superficial satisfaction, but deep down you know it was wrong. Your confidence will be undermined. However, if you have an altruistic attitude, you’ll feel comfortable and confident in the presence of others.”

Ifs Knows Feels May Different Happiness Causes Results Attitude Conditions Confidence Comfortable Anger Satisfaction Harm Arise Buddhist Wrong Altruism Superficial Deep Down

Author:Dalai Lama

“A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.”

Humans Individual Causes Human Beings Successful Satisfaction Selfish Dedicated

Author:Benjamin Spock

“Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.”

Giving Littles Findings Satisfaction

Author:Christopher Reeve

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

Work Money Satisfaction

Author:Kathy Ireland

“All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.”

Ifs Problem Satisfaction Addresses Mutual Disputes Disagreement

Book:Whither Pakistan: Dictatorship Or Democracy?

Source: Whither Pakistan: Dictatorship Or Democracy?

“But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.”

Sleep Silence Smile Satisfaction Breathing Settling Exquisite You Again Tick

Book:The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late

Source: The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late

“The real practice of love goes beyond satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Wallowing in pleasure can be just as limiting as wallowing in pain if you don't open your heart beyond the satisfaction of your personal emotional needs.”

Ifs Needs Heart Real Pain Pleasure Practice Emotional Satisfaction Dissatisfaction Open Your Heart Wallowing Emotional Needs

Author:David Deida

“We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to enable us to taste how deeply satisfying His thirst-quenching grace can be.”

“I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.”

Feels Satisfaction Formulas Magnitude

Author:Lord Kelvin

“"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.”

Inspirational Book Young Pleasure Teach Satisfaction Recalls Refining

Author:Leigh Hunt

“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.”

Source: The Frontiers of Management

“I made my choice to be in Ferrari. It is not easy because it is important for a man to have satisfaction. And for me to get the satisfaction I want means getting results.”

Men Want Mean Made Important Choices Easy Results Satisfaction Want Me Ferrari

Author:Jean Alesi

“Running is a gift I give myself almost daily. Even at days when everything seems to go wrong, I treat myself on the satisfaction of a lap of 30 to 40 minutes.”

Giving Seems Running Minutes Treats Satisfaction Lap

Author:Arthur Blank

“Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.”

Ifs Looks Satisfaction

Book:Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language

Source: Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language

“One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.”

Wells Can Do One Thing Satisfaction

Author:Hortense Odlum

“A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.”

Desire Satisfaction Selfish Selfless Being Selfish

Author:Ashly Lorenzana

“I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.”

Source: Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy

“We have a largely materialistic lifestyle characterized by a materialistic culture. However, this only provides us with temporary, sensory satisfaction, whereas long-term satisfaction is based not on the senses but on the mind. That’s where real tranquility is to be found. And peace of mind turns out to be a significant factor in our physical health too.”

Mind Long Real Turns Culture Found Term Satisfaction Lifestyle Senses Significant Factors Long Term Peace Of Mind Temporary Tranquility Materialistic Sensory Physical Health Materiality

Author:Dalai Lama

“People derive the most satisfaction from doing the best they can.”

People Satisfaction

Author:Isadore Sharp

“Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

Ifs World Want Feels Wells Made Desire Water Born This World Baby Creatures Hunger Satisfaction Explanation Swim Another World Ducklings

Author:C. S. Lewis

“What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.”

Mean Suffering Passion Poet Couple Satisfaction Delight Senses Flight Contentment Finest Lyrical

Book:Love in the Western World

Source: Love in the Western World

“We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.”

Wells Done Jobs Pleasure Satisfaction Meaningful Well Done Greatest Pleasures Meaningful Work Job Well Done Positive Work

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.”

“Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same with all my devotions. They did not come easily or spontaneously, and they very seldom brought with them any strong sensible satisfaction. Nevertheless the work of performing them ended in a profound and fortifying peace: a peace that was scarcely perceptible, but which deepened and which, as my passions subsided, became more and more real, more and more sure, and finally stayed with me permanently.”

Stills Real Wisdom Passion Strong Sacrifice Crosses Profound Satisfaction Devotion Performing Stations Sensible Nevertheless My Passion Consoling

Author:Thomas Merton

“Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.”

Ends Desire Individual Wish Lays Satisfaction Seeds

Book:Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer

“There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort”

Kind Two Happiness Comfort Satisfaction Mental Peace

Author:Dalai Lama

“My Lord does not want to know what I have done for Him. He just wants to know how I am. If he hears from me that I am happy, then he himself becomes exceedingly happy. In umistakable terms He tells me that my happiness is His real and only Satisfaction.”

Ifs Knows Want Doe Real Done Happiness Term Lord Know How Satisfaction

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.”

Men Mind Self States Happiness Satisfaction Conviction State Of Mind Self-satisfaction

Author:Margery Allingham

“I greet every new day with the words, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' That's the state of mind that directs me, fulfills me, and sends me out into the world with a gift to share. It's a blessing that I have learned over a lifetime - to experience the presence of Spirit in most of my waking moments. It's a feeling of contentment and satisfaction, of peace and love.”

World Mind States Moments Feelings Spirit Share Blessing And Love Lifetime Satisfaction Contentment State Of Mind Waking I Have Learned New Day Peace And Love

Author:Wayne Dyer

“When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.”

Ifs Mistake Masters Ordinary Satisfaction Woods Chess Glee

Author:Israel Albert Horowitz

“Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.”

States Character Feelings Pain Existence Elements Negative Satisfaction Welfare Pessimism Freedom From Pain

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

“I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.”

World Feels Order Creative Creating Satisfaction Make Sense Urges Immense Imposing Creating Something

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I’m going, or when I’ve lived in a place so long that there’s no chance I could possibly get lost.”

Knows Wells Littles Long Happens Lost Enjoy Chance Satisfaction Unexpected Disappointed Something Unexpected Figuring It

Author:Andrew Bird

“Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.”

Humans Desire Human Nature Longing Satisfaction Instant

Author:Anna Sui

“Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.”

Ifs Mind Stills Country Body Desire Fall Becoming Civilization Satisfaction Complicated Evolve Mind And Body Breeding Becoming More Cupboards

Book:Evolution and Ethics

Source: Evolution and Ethics

“A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.”

Satisfaction Pursuit Bars Chiefs Complacent Pursuit Of Knowledge

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.”

Events Argument Satisfaction

Author:Charles Kennedy

“I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.”

Way Made Done Wanted Film My Own Satisfaction

Author:Christopher Nolan

“I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.”

Thinking My Own Satisfaction

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Children Used Car Give Me Satisfaction Jewelry Doing Things For Others

Author:Criss Angel

“It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.”

Needs Done Satisfaction Bad Day Work Done Get It Done

Author:David Fincher

“There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.”

Giving Children Facts Life Is Economy Wife Benefits Give Me Dear Satisfaction Dear God

Author:Ezra Cornell

“I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.”

Want Looks Ends Might Term Rocks Satisfaction Pops Be Good Versus Being Me Mellow Personal Satisfaction Rocking Out

Author:Black Francis

“My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'”

“With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.”

Littles Satisfaction Fleeting Restless

Author:Geddy Lee

“I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.”

Ifs Believe Kind Stills Reality Happens Suffering I Believe Lucky Capitalism Satisfaction Harsh Sublime I Still Believe Humming

Author:George Saunders

“With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.”

Helping Acting Behinds Brain Special Satisfaction Flesh Operations

Author:Jack Black

“I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.”

States Individual Sides Interest Satisfaction Conviction Defense Clients Attorney Obtaining Acquittal Defense Attorneys

Author:Jim Garrison

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