Quotes About Contentment

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Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

I say no wealth is worth my life.

We are perpetually labouring to destroy our delights, our composure, our devotion to superior power. Of all the animals on earth we least know what is good for us. My opinion is, that what is best for us is our admiration of good.

Sleep is sweet, whomever it seizes, though he has cares.

The struggle itself [...] is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I would rather follow the plow as thrall to another man, one with no land allotted him and not much to live on, than be a king over all the perished dead.

Then thus the blue-eyed maid: O full of days!

Ne rüzgar eserdi orada ne yaÄŸmur yaÄŸard?, kar bile düÅŸmezdi, yaz günlerinin bulutsuz havas? ve bembeyaz parlakl??? hüküm sürerdi; mutlu tanr?lar iÅŸte orada tad?n? ç?kar?rd? günlerinin.

Gaffer Swanthold speaks truth when he saith, 'Better a crust with content than honey with a sour heart.

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.

Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

But why not float if you have no goal? That is another question. It is unquestionably better to enjoy the floating than to swim in uncertainty.

leave the other stuff to Life

We are limited in joy, knowledge, and being, the three things people really want.

It is possible to make people contented with their servitude. You can provide them with endless amounts of distraction and propaganda.

Of course it does. Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead.

I don't care the hell what other people eat so long as they enjoy it. I can't stand sad eaters and sad drinkers.

he was glad to be alone for a moment and be welcomed by his pyjamas

he was glad to be alone for a moment and by welcomed by his pyjamas

He quit while he was still alive.