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“I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realisation of the world in which we live.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and, however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Some folk want their luck buttered.” Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
“If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.” George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
“As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“The family structure. Victory over adversity through the family. He believed in it. Take the family, mix with God and Country, add the ten-hour day and you had what was needed.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why?” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.” Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
“I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?” Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.” Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
“No one is ever satisfied where he is” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Besides this, one cannot by fair dealing, and without injury to others, satisfy the nobles, but you can satisfy the people, for their object is more righteous than that of the nobles, the latter wishing to oppress, while the former only desire...” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“The truth is that I am not one of those who find their satisfaction in one person, or in infinity. The private room bores me, also the sky. My being only glitters when all its facets are exposed to many people.” Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“There's a capacity for appetite . . . that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“For just as faith teaches us that the supreme felicity of the other life consists only in this contemplation of the Divine Majesty, so we continue to learn by experience that a similar meditation, though incomparably less perfect, causes us to...” René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is 'finding his place in it', while really it is finding its place in him.” C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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