Quotes About Contentment

She felt herself age suddenly, but also knew what she now desired: to reconcile and grow old in peace, and have the wit to want nothing from the world.

Marriage douses love's flame, leaving nothing but a barren and melancholy blackness. Of course, after marriage, love itself will vanish anyway; but happiness fills the void. Still, there are those hasty fools who fall in love before marrying and, burning with emotion, exhaust all their feeling, believing love to be the highest goal in life." "What, then, is the truth of the matter?" "The truth is contentment. Love and marriage are but a means to obtaining it:

Hayat?m?n en mutlu an?ym??, bilmiyordum. [...] Herkes bilsin, çok mutlu bir hayat yaÅŸad?m.

But after my death let it be known that in my old age, at the very end of my life, there was still plenty that made me smile.

People don't know when they're happy, at least not while it's going on.

The truth is contentment. Love and marriage are but a means to obtaining it

It doesn't matter where you live, here or in your beloved Europe; you'll always be imitating them; you'll always be groveling." "If I'm happy, that's all I care about." "You can go now!" shouted Blue. "And know this: People who seek only happiness never find it.

A person should love the life he has chosen enough to call it his own in the end.

U životu se sve vrti oko sre?e. Neki su ljudi sretni, nekima je sre?a nedostižna. Ve?ina je, naravno, negdje izme?u.

Ljubav je ?ovjekova želja da usprkos mogu?nostima koje mu se nude voli samo jednu osobu i da ta osoba voli njega, ona je dakle osje?aj koji ga ?ini sretnim.

Bu çirkin ve iÄŸrenç dünyada ancak aptallar mutlu olabilir.

Barakaya doÄŸru yürüyor, hafif bir utanç duyuyor, tasar?lar yap?yordu: Her sabah cimnastik yapacak, küçük de olsa insan? aÅŸa??layan ÅŸu göbeÄŸini eritecek, gövdesinin haml???n? giderecek, getirdiÄŸi bütün kitaplar? okuyacak, bir ÅŸeyler yazacak, düÅŸünecek eskiden olduÄŸu gibi saÄŸl?kl?, dengeli ve mutlu bir insan olarak NiÅŸanta??'ndaki evine dönecekti.

am sometimes hard-pressed to explain why I've stayed, not only in the same place but in the same building.

Život se ne živi zbog na?ela, nego zato da bismo bili sretni.

If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so.

I znaj ovo: oni koji traže samo sre?u, nikada je ne na?u!

Samo?a je stvar ponosa: osamljcnik se na veoma nadmen na?in utapa u vlastitome mirisu... Problem pravoga pjesnika zapravo je uvijek isti: ako je dugo sretan, postane otrcan. A ako je dugo nesretan, ne može u sebi na?i snagu na koju bi se njegove pjesme mogle osloniti... Sre?a i pjesništvo - to ne može dugo zajedno. Nakon nekog vremena ili sre?a obezvrijedi pjesnika i njegovu poeziju ili mu prava poezija upropasti sre?u.

Ljubav je ?ovjekova želja da unato? mogu?nostima koje mu se nude voli samo jednu osobu i da ta osoba voli njega, ona je dakle osje?aj koji ga ?ini sretnim.

The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. The right mental attitude, the trained mind, will bring to us the best there is in the universe.

The habit of learning to appreciate to the utmost every situation in life adds wonderfully to the sum total of one's happiness. But many people are incapable of real happiness because they never learn to appreciate anything except that which appeals to their own comfort, pleasure, or appetite.

One of the worst doctrines ever set afloat is that real happiness is in material things instead of in a condition of mind.

Real happiness comes from the cultivation, the development, of the highest that is in us.

Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low.

Cicero said: Not to have a mania for buying, is to possess a revenue. Many are carried away by the habit of bargain-buying. Here's something wonderfully cheap; let's buy it. Have you any use for it? No, not at present; but it is sure to come in useful, some time.