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«Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back»
Author: Eugene O'Neill
| About:
Cats,
Curiosity
| Keywords:
brought, curiosity, Curiosity Killed the Cat, killed, satisfaction, The Cat
«In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.»
Author: John Selden
(Antiquarian, Jurist, Politician)
| Keywords:
authors, quote, quotes, quoting, satisfaction
«If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.»
«COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adjustment, adjustments, adversary, compromise, conflicting, conflict of interest, deprived, deprived of, deprives, due, interests, justly, not due, satisfaction
«If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
abandoning, clothing, contentment, cultivating, delight, desires, elements, extremely, faulty, finally, food, helpful, intense, meditation, meditations, protect, satisfaction, satisfied, shelter, simplicity, States, The Elements, vital
«Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
bottomless, endless, exhausts, greed, pit, pitted, reaching, satisfaction, satisfy, the pits
«If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Pain
| Keywords:
Avoiding, calling together, Call of, elementary, individuals, insecurities, insecurity, instincts, misery, promiscuous, satisfaction, seeking, selves, surrender, The Call
«Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.»
«I love friends, I want more friends. I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
artificial, basis, diplomatic, freshness, genuine, produce, sarcastic, satisfaction, smiles, suspicion, variety
«As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Death and dying,
Dreams
| Keywords:
satisfaction, satisfactions
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