I think that public gratification is what my mind is looking for. That is not what it’s all about. It’s about how you feel about yourself.
Few pleasures there are indeed without an after-touch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich Men poor.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to think too much about the future.[Ein glücklicher Mensch ist zu zufrieden mit der Gegenwart, um sich viele Gedanken über die Zukunft zu machen.]
‘Tis easier to suppress the first Desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
