Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
Zadie SmithTag: truth writing sadness satisfaction unsatisfaction veils
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
Virginia WoolfTag: happiness sadness loneliness satisfaction dissatisfaction
I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.
Simeon KondevTag: learning work personal-growth satisfaction projects
With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
G.I. GurdjieffTag: pain satisfaction
But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
Mitch AlbomTag: life truth universe materialism satisfaction deficient loving-relationship
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Tag: life love poetry companionship paradise satisfaction bread wine sufficiency
One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts--simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year.
Jaroldeen Asplund EdwardsTag: persistence journey joy consistency perseverance effort satisfaction achievement shortcuts
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
John GreenTag: self-determination satisfaction
There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
John FowlesTag: men satisfaction unsatisfaction
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.
Slavoj ŽižekTag: meaning-of-life satisfaction desire
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