Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.