Quotes About Contentment

If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in anyway original.

Have a nice rest of your life.

Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

The main advantage about being over thirty is you no longer have to pretend you have a date on Friday night or even, lo and behold, that you want one. You can now easily say to yourself, I hope no one wants to ask me to do anything because I am so looking forward to a hot tub and a midnight snack.

When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?

Let people be, boss; don't open their eyes. And supposing you did, what'd they see? Their misery! Leave their eyes closed, boss, and let them go on dreaming!

Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.

Confucius says: 'Many seek happiness higher than man; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.' That is true. So there must be a happiness to suit every man's stature.

We sense happiness with difficulty while experiencing it. Only when it has passed and we look back do we suddenly comprehend, sometimes with astonishment, how happy we have been. I, however, on this Cretan shore, was experiencing happiness while being simultaneously aware of my happiness.

Mutluydum; biliyordum bunu. Bir mutluluÄŸu yaÅŸarken onu kavramam?z zordur; ancak o geçip de arkam?za bakt???m?z zaman, birdenbire biraz da hayranl?kla, ne kadar mutlu olduÄŸumuzu anlar?z. Ama ben, bu Girit k?y?s?nda mutluluÄŸu ya??yor, üstelik mutlu olduÄŸumu da biliyordum.

Anl?yorsun! Anl?yorsun ya, seni bu yiyecek! Anlamasayd?n mutlu olurdun!

War against the unbelievers! The unbelievers are the satisfied, the satiated, the sterile.

we were both joyous, not because of drinking so much wine, but because of the excessive happiness that we had inward. we both had understood, in our own ways, that we were two insects with short life spans, sticked for good onto the earth's crust, that we found a nice place by the sea behind some canes and gas cans, that we cuddled tightly, that in front of us we had good things and food, and inside of us we had peace, love and trust.

I lack nothing, I tell you!" "Nothing?" I asked. "Not even heaven?" He lowered his head and was silent. But after a moment: "Heaven is too high for me. The earth is good, exceptionally good–and near me!" "Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

Opet sam se uverio koliko je sre?a jednostavna stvar i koliko joj malo treba – ?aša vina, kesten, jeftini mangal, huka mora; ništa više.

And - God forgive me - I believe I am happy.

I have one and only one wish: to withdraw from the world, to live far away in the countryside in a beautiful house, and to study and work there, all alone. I hope to realize that dream next yeat, when I will be thirty years old and will say goodbye to the world forever.

Poverty and nakedness are nothing, provided you have a good wife

Having as little to do with human beings as possible - in some weird way, I'm at peace.

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

Happiness always takes us by surprise, or perhaps it is not happiness. It is one's unhappiness diminished in size.

Free is a man who has no desires.