#faction

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#few #few people #pain #people #pleasure

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#derived #events #had #having #many

Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong. ↗

— Lewis Richmond

#satisfaction

my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin. ↗

— Anchee Min

#satisfaction

While the Zionists try to make the rest of the World believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn't even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organisation for their international world swindler, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks. It is a sign of their rising confidence and sense of security that at a time when one section is still playing the German, French-man, or Englishman, the other with open effrontery comes out as the Jewish race. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#independence #organisation #palestine #zionists #satisfaction

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#rationality #values #satisfaction

Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#practice #satisfaction #satisfaction

Infidelity is an opium of unfaithfulness. ↗

— Toba Beta

#disloyalty #infidelity #opium #satisfaction #unfaithfulness

The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#devil #satan #satisfaction #satisfaction

Love is not insatiable. What is insatiable is the need for love. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#love #need #satisfaction #love