Quotes and Sayings about Satisfaction

Sometimes in life when you get what you want, you end up missing what you left behind.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know your lover when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know your lover when you've let her go

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

Be happy for no reason, like a child! If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

It's human nature not to realize the true value of something unless they lose it.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.

We need to stop thinking the grass is greener on the other side and be happy with the love we have.

To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.

It's true what they say: "You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone." I miss love. I miss being looked after.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Sometimes we have to realize what we're about to lose in order to know how precious it is to us.

Being content means being intelligent.

Once you decide where you're standing is the peak, you stop moving.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

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

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.

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

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.