Satisfied Quotes - Page 28

• Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

  Ann Voskamp

  Fall, Giving, Hunger

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.15, Zondervan

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• Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Attitude, Blessing, Contentment

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• Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Art, War, Sleep

  Eiji Yoshikawa (1989). “The Art of War”, Pocket

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• Kisses should not leave you satisfied.

  Sarah MacLean

  Kissing, Should

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• It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

  Aristotle

  Men, Desire, Sisyphus

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

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• People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

  Garth Stein

  Worry, People, Next

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Self, People

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• I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hungry, Mockery

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.99, Youcanprint

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• To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can´t have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren´t satisfied - before working some more.

  Mitch Albom

  Taken, Self Worth, Mirrors

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• I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are generally impossible and always useless. This is the sort of instruction one receives : “Press your tonsils against the underside of your larynx. Then with the convex part of the septum curved upwards so as almost — but not quite — to touch the uvula, try with the tip of your tongue to reach your thyroid. Take a deep breath, and compress your glottis. Now without opening your lips say "Garoo".' And when you have done it they are not satisfied.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Thinking, Trying, Done

  "The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome".

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• To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Queens, Real, Mean

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• So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

  Ava Gardner

  Lust, Gold, Nuggets

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• Click. The door swung open. "Three," James said with a slightly self-satisfied smile. "Well done," Caroline said. He smiled back at her. "I've never met a woman or a lock that didn't love me.

  Julia Quinn

  Doors, Self, Done

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• I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Believe, Book, Thinking

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• The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Depressing, Mind, Looks

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• Who's that new guy with the snooty accent who came out and talked to the police?" Evan persisted. "He looks like some kind of male model." "That's just my cousin Ian," Amy explained. "Not much of a family resemblance," Evan noted sourly. "He's like a twenty-fifth cousin, ten times removed." Evan was not satisfied.

  Gordon Korman

  Cousin, Guy, Police

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• There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Two, Justice

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• Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

  Richard Dawkins

  Childhood, Crime, Teach

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• Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography: you lust after people and compare your spouse to them. It's impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don't have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Inspiration, Biblical

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• One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Rights, Order, Two

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.506, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.

  Lisa Unger

  Philosophy, Giving, Forever

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.695, Crown

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• Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.

  Brother Yun

  Jesus, Calling, Life Is

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2009). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.302, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Men, Justice, Murder

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.209, DOSER Reads

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• But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

  Philip Pullman

  Growing Up, Feelings, Lions

  Philip Pullman (2015). “His Dark Materials: The Complete Trilogy”, p.121, Random House

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• There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us in such a way that we can never be truly satisfied with anything or anyone less than Himself

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Heart, Men, Earth

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe/Companion Guide for Lies Women Believe- 2 book set”, p.56, Moody Publishers

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