Quotes About Contentment

Mít radost a mít rád je jedno a totéž.

Soltanto chi lascia il labirinto può essere felice, ma soltanto chi è felice può uscirne.

because up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change.

Don't let it worry you,' she said. 'And don't worry about tomorrow morning. Go your way. Everything is just as it should be. Good night, my darling boy.

I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.

Who can free himself from achievementAnd from fame,Descend and be lostAmid the masses of men?He will flow like the Tao, unseen.Such is the perfect man: His boat is empty.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Happiness is a decision.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."29

Still, the equity department seemed happy, though not until I had spent some time with them did I begin to fathom why. They felt less pressure than bond traders and bond salesmen. They had accepted their lot and like the peasants in a Breughel pastoral scene were content to celebrate the simple pleasures of life. A house on the Jersey shore rather than in the Hamptons. Skiing in Vermont rather than Zermatt.

For most people, the happiness involved in receiving a desirable object is smaller than the unhappiness involved in losing the same object.

you become very much independent of material property and learn to appreciate very simple pleasures in life such as the sunlight and morning breeze.

He was pressured to be a bit more upbeat, but upbeat did not come naturally to Steve Eisman. He could fake upbeat, and sometimes did, but he was happier not bothering.

When you don't know what you want you clutch at everything, thinking that because it's new it will be better, and not realising that a nobody won't be happy with anything.

It is so beautiful but home is home, and home is best.

You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you have to tell him to empty your mind. We just stayed there together, silent in the dusk like this, and we were quite happy.

But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.

You did not speak for some time. You felt safer that way.

Who realizes how contented feral children are? The grasp of the family fell away as soon as I was out the door.

Dinlenmek, dünyay? tüm yönleriyle ama hiç yarg?lamadan kabullenmekti.

She finds rest as opposed to sleep the truly pleasurable state.

But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by. I

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.

always living on less than you have and more lightly than you need to.