Quotes About Contentment

There's never enough time to do all the nothing I want.

Since you types wouldn't be happy unless you're unhappy, I wouldn't dare try to take your joy away by solving your problems.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Sometimes you have to be satisfied. You try hard enough. Don't be so self-critical; don't be so hard on yourself. (Shape your Self by M. Navratilova)

Do you realize that if you had started building the Parthenon on the day you were born you would be all done in only one more year? Of course, you couldn't have done it alone, so never mind, you're fine just as you are. You are loved simply for being yourself.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room.

I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

I have often said that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

We seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles. And when we have overcome these, rest proves unbearable because of the boredom it produces...

The Stoics say, Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest. And that is not true. Others say, Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement. And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

God is enough for them.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one needs. (Page 11)

If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.

A given man lives a life free from boredom by gambling a small sum every day. Give him every morning the money he might win that day, but on condition that he does not gamble, and you will make him unhappy.

If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it. (12)

I have often said the soul cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in a room. (Page 32)

Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.