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Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, ...

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The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff a...

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Brian TracyEat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite...

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I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left ...

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On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfact...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that...

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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

But when we train the senses we conserve our vital energy, the very stuff of life. Patient and secur...

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Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

Everyone wants to look for something of their own, a house of their own, a child of their own, a par...

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He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge a...

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, ju...

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The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.

Against an economism void of values other than those of exchange, protest stood for reuniting the fe...

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Henri LefebvreCritique of Everyday Life

It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a...

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Henry JamesThe Portrait of a Lady

We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which former...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

The three witches and the knight set off down the hill together, arm in arm, and all four led long a...

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Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only k...

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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of ou...

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It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, becaus...

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You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I...

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I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with sati...

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Sec. 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of r...

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I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a sup...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a sup...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a sup...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a sup...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of ...

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The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...

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... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with e...

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Be...

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When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those...

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Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole vill...

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It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in f...

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and ther...

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I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing e...

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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find...

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Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly...

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But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don...

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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, ...

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Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and ThouBeside me sin...

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

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends,...

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More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it ...

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I don't confuse my digestive system, I just season simple food with hunger

I enjoy working for my heat. I don't just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big c...

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Richard ProennekeOne Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health...

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You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

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Roland BarthesA Lover's Discourse: Fragments

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

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Roland BarthesA Lover's Discourse: Fragments

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come bac...

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The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the inve...

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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of nee...

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The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we de...

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The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to ...

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Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.

There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart con...

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Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction a...

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For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must ...

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Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like do...

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the ...

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She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a l...

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Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong s...

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Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experie...

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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satis...

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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot aff...

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Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first ink...

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All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as ...

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Arthur SchopenhauerThe World as Will and Representation

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though th...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions