Quotes About Contentment

Drop out of the "clean-plate club." "Lord, help me to eat more heartily at Your table and more sparingly at mine!" —Derl Keefer

Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!

Life doesn't get much better than this.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

TRUTH #2: Desire is the root of suffering. It is the desire to achieve, to live, to make things tolerable and pleasant, and even better, that creates untold pain in the lives of men and women. Want nothing, and you shall not be disappointed.

Bir kez kendini bulmuÅŸ olan kiÅŸinin bu yeryüzünde yitirecek bir ÅŸeyi yoktur art?k. Ve bir kez kendi içindeki insan? anlam?? olan bütün insanlar? anlar.

YaÅŸlanmak, geçmiÅŸten art?k korku duymuyor olmaktan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil zaten.

Bir insan kendisini bulduktan sonra, onun bu dünyada kaybedebileceÄŸi hiçbir ÅŸey yoktur. Ve o kiÅŸi kendi içindeki insanl??? anlad?ktan sonra, bütün insanlar? anlayacakt?r.

Two suitcases, in one the wardrobe, the earthly essentials, in the other- manuscripts, the spiritual supplies, then you are at home everywhere-Zweig GW Tagebuecher p. 383

tokluk da açl?ktan daha az k??k?rt?c? deÄŸildir

And it is only delusion, and not knowledge, that bestows happiness.

L'amour coûte cher aux vieillards—I think that was the title of one of Balzac's most moving stories, and many could be written on the subject. But the old people who know most about it are happy

A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.

All things considered, he stuck to his basic attitude of enjoying wealth by knowing that he had it, rather than by making a great display of it.

A well-chosen tie could make me almost merry; a good book, an excursion in a motor car or an hour with a woman left me fully satisfied. It particularly pleased me to ensure that this way of life, like a faultlessly correct suit of English tailoring, did not make me conspicuous in any way. I believe I was considered pleasant company, I was popular and welcome in society, and most who knew me called me a happy man.

Growing old, after all, means that one no longer fears the past."..

Alors, dans l'obscurité j'ai pleuré de bonheur.

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

Bilm?k deyil, sad?c? x?yal et?k insan? xo?b?xt ed?r

alguien realmente sabio debe aprender que la verdadera dignidad de la vejez y de su vida es la resignación. Las más bellas cartas, las más armoniosas, proceden de esta época de íntimo recogimiento.

Hiçbir arzum yok, yeryüzünde masum kalmak d???nda.

expect nothing from the future

La vejez no significa nada más que dejar de sufrir por el pasado.