#satisfaction

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#desire #home #satisfaction #satisfaction

Where's Lucy?" I asked the others. "At the farmhouse," Nicholas said with grim satisfaction. "How'd you manage that?" "She's in a closet." Solange rolled her eyes. I stared at Nicholas. "You locked your girlfriend in a closet? Smooth." "She's going to eviscerate him," Quinn said cheerfully. ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

#logan #lucy #quinn #solange #satisfaction

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#satisfaction #satisfaction

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. ↗

— Ann Brashares

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Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#comfort #taco #satisfaction

Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back. ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

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He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#will-trombal #satisfaction

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#self-esteem #self-satisfaction #satisfaction

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#creation #fall #hunger #more #satisfaction

I also need you to "spread the word," quietly, that if any harm should come to Antanasia during my imprisonment, I will not only tear down these walls stone by stone, but -- once freed -- shatter the rule of law and destroy, with great satisfaction, anyone who arouses in me even the slightest suspicion. Indeed, if so much as one hair on my wife's head is disturbed while I cannot protect her, this kingdom will see retribution that will go down in the history books -- to be read by the very few who remain standing. - Lucius ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

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