Quotes About Contentment

Where ever I am is paradise because I'm there. I am Joy itself.

I can't help but think of the dance that I'm not going to. It's not that I want to go to a dance. I'd go milk cows with Jocelyn if I could. Or do whatever kids around here do for fun.

Biz çok iyi biliriz ki, hayat?ndan memnun görünenler beÅŸ paras?zd?r veya hak ettikleri gibi günahlar?n?n cezas?n? ödüyorlard?r. DiÄŸer taraftan, en ac?kl? ÅŸekilde yoksulluktan yak?nanlar?n da gizliden gizliye servet sahibi kiÅŸiler olduÄŸunu gayet iyi biliriz.

Zevk, okuma ve rahatl?k yeterliydi Nicholai için. (...) EÄŸlence gibi bir uyuÅŸturucu maddeye de gereksinim duymuyordu.

Ergo, the wise man achieves the balance by reducing his needs to the level of his possessions. And this is best done by learning to value the free things of life: the mountains, laughter, poetry, wine offered by a friend, older and fatter women.

orhiko choria orhin laket / orhy ku?lar? ancak orhy'de mutlu olur

We have a nice home and we love each other and that's enough.

Hanara did not yet feel he'd reached long-life. It was a state, slaves said, where you felt satisfied you have lived long enough. Where you didn't feel cheated if you died. You might not have had an easy life, or a happy one, but you'd had your measure. Or you had made a difference to the world, even a small one, because you had existed.

How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.

Jacopo Belbo didn't understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

I sought peace in everything, but never was I happier than in a corner with a book

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.

daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

and I loved the girl precisely because she existed, and I was happy, not envious, that she existed.

La vida es llevadera, basta conformarse.

Az életöröm abból az érzésbÅ'l fakad, hogy a vigalom meg a búbánat is csak rövid ideig tart, és jaj nekünk, ha megtudjuk, hogy örök boldogság vár reánk.

Tôi Ä'ã Ä'i cùng kh?p, ki?m sá»± an bình, r?t cuá»™c ch? tìm th?y nó khi ng?i ? má»™t góc phòng vá»›i má»™t quy?n sách mà thôi…

dienos miegas yra lyg k?no nuod?m?: kuo daugiau jos esi patyr?s, tuo daugiau jos trokšti, bet jautiesi nelaimingas, kartu sotus ir alkanas.

Los franciscanos decimos: no poseemos nada, todo lo tenemos en uso. Él

I felt dull and somnolent, for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

Mutlu insan?n hikayesi olmaz

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

Dieve--but I'm glad I'm not a hog.

All that a rich man needed to be happy was to have no heart. If he had one, then all the gifts which fortune showered upon him might turn to dust and ashes in his hands.