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Quotes About Contentment

I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain it. All I care about is to be happy.
~ Penelope Cruz
Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.
~ Horace
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
~ Ingrid Bergman
To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just rememeber two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.
~ Omar Khayyam
Don't cry upon you losses Don't mesure today with tommorows Don't trust to passed and coming day Believe in now - and be happy today.
~ Omar Khayyam
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
~ Marvin Gaye
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
~ Saint Basil
True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
~ Rabia Basri
Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
~ Billie Holiday
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
~ Akhenaton
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Accept who you are; and revel in it.
~ Mitch Albom
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
~ Andrew Davidson
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with
~ Plato
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.
~ Laozi
To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
~ Petar Dunov
Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.
~ Swami Satchidananda
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.
~ Democritus
This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.
~ Muhammad Ali
If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.
~ Mihai Eminescu
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
~ Aristophanes