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Quotes About Contentment

It occurred to him as a passing thought that all was for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Half the trouble in the world was caused by people not letting well alone.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The Problem of Life seemed to him to be solved. He looked on down the years, and he could see no troubles there of any kind whatsoever. Reason suggested that there were probably one or two knocking about somewhere, but this was no time to think of them. He examined the future, and found it good.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
A] single glance told him that here was somebody who was sitting on a pink cloud with a rainbow round his shoulder. Mr. Trout had not yet burst into song with a hey nonny nonny and a hotchacha, but when you said that you had said everything.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.
~ Pablo Neruda
I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent distant and full of sorrow as though you had died One word then, one smile is enough And I'm happy; happy that it's not true
~ Pablo Neruda
I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent, distant and full of sorrow as though you had died. One word then, one smile, is enough. And I am happy, happy that it's not true.
~ Pablo Neruda
Seviyorum susman?, yokluk gibisin çünkü. Öyle uzak, ac?l?, ölüp gitmiÅŸ gibi sen. Yeter o zaman bir söz, bir gülümseyiÅŸ bile. Sevinirim, baÅŸka ÅŸey yok öyle sevindiren.
~ Pablo Neruda
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
~ Pablo Picasso
I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.
~ Pablo Picasso
I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.
~ Pablo Picasso
Nobody gets to have it all, not even Donald Trump. You will have one thing or another depending on what choice you make. Or you will have both things in limited amounts, and that might turn out to be perfect, just exactly the life you want.
~ Pam Houston
I guess I don't believe you can have it all. I don't believe any of us can. In fact, I believe the very expression having it all is not only a myth but also a symptom of how sick we are in our contemporary culture. Nobody gets to have it all...You will have one thing or another depending on what choice you make. Or you will have both things in limited amounts, and that might turn out to be perfect, just exactly the life you want' (175).
~ Pam Houston
young women around the age of thirty who are concerned with things like finding a husband, starting a family, paying their bills, and succeeding in their careers, as well as with how they look. I think the most important thing for them to know is that it's really normal to be freaked out about where you are in life, but those things you want so badly will come in due time. Meanwhile, life will be a lot more joyful if you learn how to be comfortable
~ Pamela Redmond Satran
young women around the age of thirty who are concerned with things like finding a husband, starting a family, paying their bills, and succeeding in their careers, as well as with how they look. I think the most important thing for them to know is that it's really normal to be freaked out about where you are in life, but those things you want so badly will come in due time. Meanwhile, life will be a lot more joyful if you learn how to be comfortable in your own skin.
~ Pamela Redmond Satran
I would rather dip my bread in salt and look at the sun than dip it in butter and look at my feet.
~ Panaït Istrati
El nu era un înÈ›elept, dar îi pl?cea liniÈ™tea conÈ™tient? a sufletului: - Mai curând sau mai târziu, omul inteligent ajunge s? înÈ›eleag? deÈ™ert?ciunea zbuciumului sentimental care tulbur? pacea È™i consum? viaÈ›a - îmi zicea el. Ferice de acel care ajunge s? înÈ›eleag? aceasta mai de timpuriu: cu atât mai mult se va bucura de existen??.
~ Panaït Istrati
İnsan?n hiçbir ÅŸeyi olmamal?.O zaman dünyaya sahip demektir.
~ Panait İstrati
Worldly objects are short-lived. They may or may not last until tomorrow. They consume the life of our senses. No matter how long we live, it is not enough. Therefore, O Gurudeva, please keep your chariots, elephants, and dancing girls for yourself. "A human being can never be satiated with wealth.
~ Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
Why be elated by material profit?" Father replied. "The one who pursues a goal of evenmindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that man arrives penniless in this world, and departs without a single rupee.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
He laughed. "I mean a pension of fathomless peace — a reward for many years of deep meditation. I never crave money now. My few material needs are amply provided for.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Make up your mind that you will be happy whether you are rich or poor, healthy or unhealthy, happily married or unhappily married, young or old, smiling or crying. Don't wait for yourself, your family, or your surroundings to change before you can be happy within yourself. Make up your mind to be happy within yourself, right now, whatever you are, or wherever you are.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Plain living and high thinking should be your goal. Learn to carry all the conditions of happiness within yourself by meditating and attuning your consciousness to the ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new Joy, which is God. Your happiness should never be subject to any outside influence. Whatever your environment is, don't allow your inner peace be touched by it.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda