Satisfaction

If you can understand loneliness and go beyond it, then you will find there is no need to escape, no urge to be gratified or entertained, for your mind will know a richness that is incorruptible and cannot be destroyed.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

—Samual Johnson

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

—John Dewey

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

—Robertson Davies

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

—From a 1975 interview with Mick Jagger, who still performs the song at age sixty-seven

The days you work are the best days.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

—Alexander Pope

There's a great satisfaction in knowing that we've made good use of our days, that we've lived up to our expectations of ourselves.

—Gretchen Rubin in Better Than Before

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

—Ann Brashares in My Name Is Memory

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

—Maxwell Maltz

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

—Anne Frank

Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.

—Tayari Jones in An American Marriage

There's no sense of satisfaction in something you didn't do anything to achieve.

—Mia Sheridan in Becoming Calder

This had always frightened her about marriage: how satisfied married people seemed, how unable they were to ask for more. She couldn't imagine feeling satisfied.

—Brit Bennett in The Mothers