Quotes About Contentment

The more you consume the less you live

The unattended mind lives with unending wants, while the awakened mind understands that its own watchfulness is the fullness it seeks.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Quiconque est authentiquement heureux ou sage le demeure dans chaque situation. Il apporte cette qualité avec lui partout où il va. La sagesse et le contentement font partie de sa nature.

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My son, a true king is never concerned with what his subjects bring him, whether bags of silver or bags of straw, because he knows he possesses the entire kingdom. Look beyond this stage: everything is yours; it always has been.

Secret Self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

Sometimes the one life we are allowed is enough.

C'était aussi un ambitieux, estima-t-elle, mais seulement à la façon des gens trop zélés qui craignent de voir dérangé l'ordre d'une vie bien établie. Aucun feu intérieur n'animait cet homme.

He'd stopped permitting himself to be unhappy about it.

The next time you think that there's something that you "can't live without", wait for a week and then see if you're still alive or not

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are." —Halford E. Luccock

Judith smiled in her quiet triumph, marveling that not until she gave up the keys had she understood that in doing so she had paid the cost of peace.

He had curled himself up into a minature sphere in the farthest corner of the box, a fuzzy softball that would have fit eaisly into the palm of my hand.

As long as he's eating and he's happy.

I don't think it ever ocurred to me to aim for happyness, though. I mean, do you do that? No, just try to get trough with as little pain as possible, that's the way ...

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.

The peach-out-of-reach in the adjacent orchard is always more alluring than the apple on the ground in one's own.

she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.

He who does not care for Heaven but is contented where he is, is already in Heaven.

Se siente rico! "It feels good in here!

Go away...I'm alright.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.