Quotes About Contentment

One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

Gerçek mutluluk, yava? yava?, azar azar gelir ve bu bizim hayata bak?? aç?m?zla, çevremizle, çevremizdekilere kar?? davran???m?zla do?rudan do?ruya ilgili ve orant?l?d?r. Mutluluk, birbirini tamamlayan ufak tefek ?eylerin birikmesinden do?uyor.

We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

Joy = Love - Fear

This equation has helped many people I know identify the difference between practicing happiness and pursuing it. When my happiness feels elusive, I tend to ask myself, "What am I not being grateful for, and what am I pursuing that's distracting me from that gratitude?

That may seem like a brain tease, but think of it this way: "Wanting What You Have" is like practicing gratitude. It means appreciating the good fortune in your life. "Having What You Want," to me, means that you are pursuing something that will give you gratification, potentially to the neglect of what you already have. In other words, The

Wanting What You Have" is like practicing gratitude. It means appreciating the good fortune in your life. "Having What You Want," to me, means that you are pursuing something that will give you gratification, potentially to the neglect of what you already have.

If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.

Beauty is not everything!

The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don't get attached to them. And: When a man reaches a state where honor and dishonor are alike to him, then he is considered supreme. Strive to gain such a state.

Who am I to say that small joys are less valuable than a passion which shatters your life?

When one has to leave behind almost everything, it hardly matters what one takes.

She feels a certain pity when she thinks of that time, that self. Such an earnest wife-self, wanting so much, her stance one of perpetual leaning forward, as though perfection was a town just a little farther down the road. She didn't know then that perfection had nothing to do with happiness.

Perhaps only when one possessed a greater treasure could one let go of this world.

I saw that this was how we would live out the next decades, dragging ourselves from one expected action to the next, hoping by meticulous duty to bring each other some small measure of happiness. But the comfort that duty offers is lukewarm at best. Happiness, like a mischievous bird that hops from branch to branch, would continue to elude us.

He who spends all his time amassing wealth is a slave to it.

We're strange creatures, we humans. At one level, we just want to eat, drink, play, and acquire more stuff. But life on the hedonic treadmill is ultimately dissatisfying. A beautiful remedy is to hop off it and instead begin pursuing an idea that's bigger than you are.

Las dos proposiciones siguientes son ciertas: (a) Si tuviera la ocasión, Abbott no cambiaría ni uno de los elementos fundamentales de su vida, pero (b) Abbott no soporta su vida.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

We did not have hurry. We did not have electricity or fresh water or sadness either, because none of these had been connected to our village yet.