Quotes About Contentment

Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task.

There is a serenity in illness that takes away all the need to do and makes just being enough. In

People like us, Rose, we just want to live happy quiet lives, don't we? Little house. Enough to eat... That was all he'd wanted. And Rose wished with all her heart he could have had it. But she knew now that you can't change the past. It doesn't mean you have to forget it, but you can't change it and you can't stay there.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a bit fat mess every time.

How can someone be wise who isn't even remotely happy?

Solange wir das Glück suchen oder herbeisehnen, erfahren wir es nicht. Glück ist vielleicht das, was uns hinterher als solches erscheint. Wenn wir aber ganz darauf vergessen, ist es kurz zu haben. Glück widerfährt uns manchmal, wenn wir ganz wir selbst sind.

Auch die Sinnfrage stellt sich mir nicht mehr. Weil ich loszulassen gelernt habe. Wer den Sinn immerzu sucht, weil er abhandengekommen ist, wird ihn ebenso wenig finden wie das Glück. Beide sind verwurzelt und flüchtig zugleich. In uns selbst.

Having everythin is boring; I'm convinced of that. Once you have something - knowledge, skills, possessions - or have achieved something - climbing Mount Everest, for example - it becomes banal.

Ein glückliches und ein sinnerfülltes Dasein sind deckungsgleich.

Nepat?kam?m atmi??m piemita kut kas labs: t?s atg?din?ja, ka esi bijis laim?gs, ja ar? pirms mirk?a v?l dom?ji, ka t?ds neesi. Laim?gam b?t ir realat?vs j?dziens. Kurš to apjautis reti j?tas gluži nelaim?gs. /The Night in Lisabon/

To ameliorate & raise the standard of the workingmen to the bourgeois level, is perhaps to create a race of slaves content with their lot,-a cast of comfortable Pariahs.

Et il regrettait de ne pas avoir plus de mains, plus de lèvres pour lui faire partout plus de joies à la fois.

And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody's brother, somebody's usher, somebody's roommate, somebody's roommate's usher's brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book.

I took a little celebrational nap.

IF ONE'S LIFE is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.

When you're motivated by fear, you will never feel satisfied

Someone to share his life with, who would greet him with a smile and a kiss, and a toddler to tackle him around the knees. Not much by today's standards, but everything by his own.

A ella le gustaba de alma la noche, pero no tenía nada de perversa. A lo sumo tenía esa necesaria cuota de perversión que hace más llevadera la vida, pero no más. Era feliz como era: jamás quiso tener un hijo, jamás se arrepintió de nada que hubiera hecho. El que no está a la altura de su deseo, decía la Coca, ése es uno a quien el mundo puede llamar un cobarde.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

Le paradis, c'est simplement d'être soi-même parfait.

Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed.