Quotes About Temporary Satisfaction

#1. Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

Peter Kreeft

#2. An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings.

Robert Greene

#3. Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you're lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that's just a matter of luck. You can't attribute that to anything else.

Bob McNair

#6. Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

Wilfred Owen

#7. The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Vivienne Westwood

#8. You pursue excellence when you care about something other than your own excellence.

Michael S. Horton

#9. If two people believe in the same idea of truth, it is a delusion.

Manu Joseph

#10. God's Word is a map you can safely follow as you travel through life.

Elizabeth George

#11. [If you hear a] story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because it has never happened to anyone you know, and sausage, after all, is delicious.

David McRaney

#12. I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!

Artur Schnabel

#13. I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio.

Greg Cipes

#14. The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

Nicholas Sparks

#15. Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the

Joan Z. Borysenko

#16. Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#17. I loved the sensual pleasures of being outside, the smell of it, the feel of the earth under my fingers, the satisfaction of seeing things living, glowing, captivated by their own temporary beauty.

Jojo Moyes

#18. I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.

Bat For Lashes

#19. A lot of the album is made of love songs I've written over the past three or four years that have lasted the test of time. It's probably the thing that connects the songs together other than the sound of my vocals.

Vance Joy

#20. We don't give to get, we get to give

R. Alan Woods

#21. Stupidity is doomed,
therefore, to cringe
at every syllable
of wisdom.

Heraclitus

#22. To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something that's not there, takes one who is a visionary.

Wes Adamson