Mental Satisfaction Quotes

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

I've got everything I wanted so I'm just happy.

A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

That best of blessings, a contented mind.

I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

Happiness is a state of mind.

I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind for bids to crave.

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

I think it's really important to find the right balance for you - a way of eating and living that satisfies you physically and mentally - and that's different for everyone.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.