I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

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

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

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.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Value is what you get.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

We are all pleased when our names are pronounced and spelled correctly.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

For greed all nature is too little.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

As for our majority… one is enough.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.