We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.
It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel.
Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.
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