Quotes About Contentment

can remember when a dog could go to sleep all day in the middle of Main Street and nothing come along to disturb him.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate.

It doesn't matter, sister. Too much thinking is bad for health. Now come on, let us sell a few more carrots and brinjals. This is who we are, not poets or philosophers.

Why worry, if today be sweet'?

The hunger for the world is bigger than the world itself and no dinner of mutton cutlets and okra is going to feed it.

Si deseas cada gozo, renuncia por completo a todo apego. Abandonando todo apego por completo, se halla el éxtasis más excelente.

It is never too late. Even if you are going to die tomorrow, Keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today. If you keep your situation happy day by day, you will eventually reach the greatest happiness of enlightenment. – Lama Yeshe

All of us, the religious and the non-religious, Easterner and Westerner alike, want to be happy. Everybody seeks happiness, but are you looking in the right place? Perhaps happiness is here but you're looking there. Make sure you seek happiness where it can be found.

Through thorough examination you can realize that dedicating your entire life to seeking happiness through chocolate and icecream completely nullifies the significance of your having been born human. Birds and dogs have similar aims. Shouldn't your goals in life be higher than those of dogs and chickens?

When Lord Buddha spoke about suffering, he wasn't referring simply to superficial problems like illness and injury, but to the fact that the dissatisfied nature of the mind itself is suffering. No matter how much of something you get, it never satisfies your desire for better or more. This unceasing desire is suffering; its nature is emotional frustration.

He is untainted by elaborations of the eight mundane concerns.77

pursuing virtuous activities in the pure realms. Therefore, those capable of training the mind are not vulnerable to the proliferation of the five degenerations and remain contented. If you know how to train the mind, even your body, the body of a mind training yogi, is known as the "city that is a source of joy." For all happiness—of this and future lives, of self and others—comes

No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.

There are too many people too angry at a world that isn't the least bit angry at them.

They both giggled, until they'd forgotten what was funny. Eventually, they lapsed into comfortable silence, enjoying the sun.

And I remember that I'm not lonely. I'm alone. When I'm comatose from writing and mothering, when I'm hurting too badly to cook, talk, or smile, I curl up with 'alone' like a security blanket. Alone doesn't care that I don't shave my legs in the winter. Alone never gets disappointed by me." Eva sighed. "It's the best relationship I've ever been in.

P.S. The older I get, the more I wonder if the secret to true happiness is knowing which dreams to let go of.

Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.

Why endure verticality when you can be horizontal?

Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.

This is how I became rich: I was at home at four-thirty on a Friday afternoon. Rich? Rich for many. Comfortable for some. Comfortable well-off I would say.

We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.

Do you realize what you accomplished today? You're supposed to be happy right now." "I am. That's the most fucked-up part," he said. "I've never been happier in my life. But when dreams come true in reality they never feel the same as when you imagine them, and you know what that means? It means that no matter how good things are, maybe they'll never be good enough, and there's something seriously wrong with that.

For what its worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent goddamn state of mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit. ...Personally, I don't like inherently happy people. I don't trust them. I think there is something seriously wrong with anyone who isn't at least a little let down by the world." - Paul Hudson