"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."
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"Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction."
"Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts."
"Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth."
"Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement."
"I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis."
"Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction."
"Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war."
"Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable."
"The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art."
"What do you want to do sadhana for? The aim should not be the satisfaction of egoism: "I want to be a great yogi; I shall have so much power and with that power I shall establish myself in the world." All such thoughts must be thrown far away."
"For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi."
"I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction."
"Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time."
"He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father."
"The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]"
"The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you."
"As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow."
"Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer."
"Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself."