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

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

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

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.

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

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

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.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

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.

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

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Value is what you get.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

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’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.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

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.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

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.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

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

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

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.

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

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.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

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

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

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

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?

The skin of my character in ‚The Man Who Fell to Earth‘ was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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