Quotes About Contentment

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

Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

The sole case of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room

Being unable to overcome death, misery, and uncertainty, men have agreed, in order to be happy, not to think about them.

We are so unhappy that we can only enjoy something which we should be annoyed to see go wrong, and that can and does constantly happen to thousands of things. Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point. It is perpetual motion.

This is how the whole of our life slips by. We seek repose by battling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome we find rest is unbearable because of the boredom it generates. ... We can't imaging a condition that is pleasant without fun and noise.

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

all of man's problems come from the inability to sit quietly in a room.

All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Les misères de tous les hommes tirent de ne pas être en mesure de s'asseoir dans une pièce calme seul.

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

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

All human troubles derive from our inability to sit still and alone in a room.

De verbeelding kan dwazen niets wijs maken, maar ze maakt hen gelukkig.

J'ay souvent dit, que tout le malheur des hommes vient de ne sçavoir pas se tenir en repos dans une chambre.

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Man is full of wants; he loves only those who can satisfy them all.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want. -Bob Dylan's Dad

Build me a cabin in Utah Marry me a wife, catch rainbow trout Have a bunch of kids who call me "Pa" That must be what it's all about That must be what it's all about

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content.

Send them all my salary On the waters of oblivion Too much of nothing Can turn a man into a liar It can cause one man to sleep on nails And another man to eat fire Ev'rybody's doin' somethin' I heard it in a dream But when there's too much of nothing It just makes a fella mean

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.