Quotes About Contentment

There are two sources of unhappiness in life. One is not getting what you want; the other is getting it. George Bernard Shaw W

As one successful Harvard-educated businessman remarked about the many successes he had experienced in his business, "I was always finding out that beyond the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, there's a sort of emptiness." Consider

If your life were absolutely perfect, how would it look to you?

How was it that I could be so successful, so fortunate, and yet so frustratingly unfulfilled?

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

If what you're doing doesn't make you happy, you're doing the wrong thing.

Fortune accepted that he could not become a helpless, blameless baby again and yet he was strangely satisfied at the prospect of being carried upwards into the receptive convexities of the clouds.

I take, O cross, thy shadow For my abiding place I ask no other sunshine than The sunshine of His face Content to let the world go by To know no gain nor loss My sinful self my only shame My glory all the cross. (Elizabeth C. Clephane, Public Domain)

But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.

Sie glaube, sagte Naomi sinngemäß, dass ihre Mutter, als sie von dem Turm sprang, das eigene Leben so schnell und doch würdig beendet habe, wie man ein Buch ohne richtige Handlung irgendwann zuklappt, statt es sklavisch zu Ende zu lesen.

Non-possession" does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

For in all adversity of fortune, it is the most unhappy kind of misfortune to have been happy.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?

and as I was saying, one won't have it easy with him, when Uncle Pepin worked the malt house, that son of mine took up with him, to not be at home, when dark came and we couldn't find him, he would be in the stables, at the troughs with oxen breathing down on him, happier hobnobbing with oxen than in his own home, as I say, one will not have it in any way easy with him.

All we wanted was to go on living like that forever.

Don't think about happiness. If it doesn't come, there's no disappointment; if it does come, it's a surprise.

Gdyby mi wystarczy?o kilkadziesi?t tysi?cy rubli rocznie i komplet do wista, by?bym w Warszawie najszcz??liwszym cz?owiekiem- mówi? do siebie.- Ale poniewa? oprócz ?o??dka mam dusz?, która ?aknie wiedzy i mi?o?ci, wi?c musia?bym tam zgin??. W tej strefie nie dojrzewaj? ani pewnego gatunku ro?liny, ani pewnego gatunku ludzie...