Quotes About Contentment

The problem was that I wasn't truly free. Freedom comes when we no longer need to be somebody special in other people's eyes. We are to be content to be popular with him alone.

Maturity in life is when someone is living joyfully within their God-given limits.

La felicidad está en desear lo que uno recibe.

You mustn't expect too much," I said. "Happiness consists of wanting what you get.

You only have one life to live. How you live that life is your choice. As far as I know, no one has ever had 'I wish I had bought more stuff' inscribed on their tombstone. What you own can easily blind you to who you are and what you can be.

Gold,silver,gems, fine raiment , a marble palace, well-cultivated fields, paintings, a splendidly caparisoned horse such things as these give one nothing more than a mute and superficial pleasure. Books delight us through and through, they converse with us, they give us good advice; they become living and lively companions to us .

Perhaps I am sated with travel, with rambling through many lands; perhaps my youthful ardor is relaxing and cooling, turning naturally to a love of peace, suitable for my occupations. At any rate I am losing my love of roving.

Bir ?ey ümit etmemenin rahatl???ndan ba?ka bar?nacak ruhi bir kö?em kalmam??t?.

Yoksa, hakikaten bahtiyar insan?n bahtiyar görünmek için o kadar gürültü pat?rd?ya ne ihtiyac? var?

En güzel köprü, ihtirastan tevekküle kuruludur.

Ben de gülümsedim ve ç?lg?n bir sevinçle hâdisenin üstüne aban?yor, gayr-i hakikî bir nokta ar?yordum; fakat bir kere, inanman?n ?ehveti ba?lad?ktan sonra, hakikat oldu?una iman edilen ?eyi bütün i?tiyaklar?yla kucakl?yan insanlar gibi sevinçten ç?ld?r?yordum, kuruntumun utanc?n? duymayacak kadar mes'uttum.

I believe there is a legitimate place for sweat and toil, but life is more than a climb to the top. Therefore, help me, Lord, to enjoy my work one day at a time, unhindered by my desire to get ahead. 10.

Hope opens doors that despair has slammed shut. Hope looks for the good instead of harping on the worst. Hope turns problems into opportunities and fear into faith. Is such hope a pie-in-the-sky illusion? Does it make Christians complacent, content to leave the world as it is? Maybe so for some people, but knowing our future is secure should free us to make a difference in the lives of those around us.

It's just another day for you and me in paradise.

Sometimes you've just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

According to the Dalai Lama, happiness is not a static state that we attain. It is an elusive goal that we must constantly pursue.

In the 1930s the eminent historian Will Durant wrote, "Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit, and a unifying, pacifying love for all living things."2

They said I lacked ambition, which wasn't true. They confused contentment for stagnation, a common mistake.

If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are rich, live with your riches. All this is the functioning of Buddha-nature. In short, Buddha-nature has the quality of infinite adaptability.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

This is the meaning of life, my friend. To know when you are well off and to hate or envy no man.

like my mother used to say, it's good to make ends meet but sometimes it's nice to have enough to tie a bow.

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.