Quotes About Contentment

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity.

Sanity begins with knowing your place.

Happiness and contentment, equability of mind and meaningfulness of life – these can be experienced only by the individual and not by a State, which, on the one hand, is nothing but a convention agreed to by independent individuals, and on the other, continually threatens to paralyse and suppress the individual.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

Nepromišljeno jurimo za novotarijama, gonjeni sve snažnijim osje?ajem nedostatnosti, nezadovoljstva i nemira. Više ne živimo od onoga što imamo, nego od obe?anja, više ne u svjetlosti današnjega dana, nego u tami budu?nosti, koja ?e, kako o?ekujemo, napokon donijeti pravi izlazak sunca.

Ah, my brother, you will never know the happiness of thinking nothing and doing nothing. This is the most delightful thing there is, next to sleep. So we were before birth, and so we shall be after death.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. —SAMUEL JOHNSON

Contentment is accepting what God has given us, and, by His strength, making the most of it.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Sometimes it's the simplest things we should most long for.

Danny Noonan I haven't even told my father I'm not gonna get that scholarship. I'm gonna end up working in a lumberyard the rest of my life. Ty Webb What's wrong with lumber I own two lumberyards. Danny Noonan I notice you don't spend too much time there. Ty Webb I'm not quite sure where they are.

Ser feliz O melhor lugar é ser feliz O melhor é ser feliz Mas Onde estou Não importa tanto aonde vou O melhor é ter amor

eu nunca tive porra de ideal nenhum, eu só queria era salvar a minha, veja só que coisa mais individualista elitista capitalista, eu só queria era ser feliz, cara, gorda, burra, alienada e completamente feliz.

All you could hope for with your second half century: that things wouldn't piss you off. You rarely got that.

minimalists don't mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good.

The day the declutter was over, I raced back to Facebook, to my old blogs, to Discord, gleeful and ready to dive back in—and then, after about thirty minutes of aimless browsing, I kind of looked up and thought … why am I doing this? This is … boring? This isn't bringing me any kind of happiness. It took a declutter for me to notice that these technologies aren't actually adding anything to my life.