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• The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.

  Randolph Bourne

  Religious, Feelings, Ironic

  Randolph Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.136, Univ of California Press

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• Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand.

  Louise Hay

  Creativity, Unique, Creative

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Everyday Positive Thinking: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.421, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Bf 109 is, without doubt, the most satisfying and challenging aircraft that I have ever flown.

  Mark Ashley Hanna

  Challenges, Doubt, Aircraft

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• Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your campfire as the golden sun sets on the horizon--even if it's just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything.

  Pippa Middleton

  Rain, Character, Soul

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• If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.

  Andres Iniesta

  Sacrifice, Winning, Enjoy

  "Andrés Iniesta: Football isn't a science. We play this way because it suits us" by Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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• The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives.

  Charles A. Murray

  Odds, Work Ethic, Liberty

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• It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.

  Nubar Gulbenkian

  Golf, Player, Remember

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• If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Ideas, Feelings

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

  Henry Fielding

  Sex, White, Desire

  'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 6, ch. 1

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• Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Meaningful, Light, Interesting

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• [I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Faith, Science, Class

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• What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, People, Liberty

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• Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings.

  Vernon Howard

  Reality, Light, Healthy

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• ...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

  H. Russell Wakefield

  Humility, Chess, Lovers

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• This or something better now manifests for me in totally satisfying and harmonious ways, for the highest good of all concerned.

  Shakti Gawain

  Way, Affirmation, Something Better

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.23, Mango Media Inc.

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• The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

  H. L. Mencken

  Agnostic, Ecstatic, Knows

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.89, Vintage

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• Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

  Nita Ambani

  Motherhood, Challenges, World

  "Ever wonder if you’ll make it through motherhood?" by Linda G, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2017.

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• There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Life, Sweet, Husband

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• Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.

  Harry Browne

  Morning, Desire, Rewards

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• People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

  Robert Keith Leavitt

  People, Soul, Mind

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• Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying work of art. Every individual, with thought, patience and a large portion of help from nature, has it in them to create their own private paradise: truly a thing of beauty and a joy for ever.

  Geoff Hamilton

  Beauty, Art, Creativity

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• Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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• The way of the gospel is a simple way. Some of the requirements may appear to you as elementary and unnecessary. Do not spurn them. Humble yourselves and walk in obedience. I promise that the results that follow will be marvelous to behold and satisfying to experience.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Humble, Humility, Simple

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• Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied in itself with its own quantity of water. Similarly, when our heart is cleansed with spirituality, we find pleasure and ecstasy with our own selves that is so sweet, so wonderful and so satisfying, that the so-called pleasures of this world no longer have any values, no appeal at all.

  Radhanath Swami

  Sweet, Strong, Ocean

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• The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

  Aldous Huxley

  Eye, Men, Views

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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