A Quote by Edward Abbey

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
American - Author
January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Maude Adams

...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

Emmeline Pankhurst

I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

Liz W. Garcia

Ultimately, the goal of personal Bible study is a transformed life and a deep and abiding relationship with Jesus Christ.

Kay Arthur

When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.

David Ulevitch

My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

James Heckman

Life is not about making money. It is about enhancing the quality of life for every single being so that they go from physical satisfaction to astral satisfaction to mental satisfaction to growing spiritual satisfaction, up and up and up, all the way. It's all spiritual.

Benjamin Creme

The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel.

William Hurt

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

David Brooks

Satisfaction comes from the inside out, so people keep gravitating from things externally to try to fill something - get a man to complete them, get money to complete them, get a job to complete them and still find themselves frustrated.

Paula White

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

Lydia Lunch

Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around your deep abiding need to write. Say Yes more, but not always. Say No enough that you have a life.

Nick Earls

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

Van Jones

Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.