Quotes About Contentment

The same talk, the same thoughts, and always about the same things! And they are all satisfied and confident that it should be so, and will go on living like that till they die.

El secret de la felicitat no és fer sempre el es vol, sinó voler sempre el que es fa

These things are so, because men have ceased to live by their own labour, and have taken to depending on the labour of others. In the old time, men lived according to God's law. They had what was their own, and coveted not what others had produced

Freedom? What is the good of freedom? Happiness consists only in loving and desiring: in wishing her wishes and in thinking her thoughts, which means having no freedom whatever; that is happiness!

At first, in the bustle of building and settling down, Pahom was pleased with it all, but when he got used to it he began to think that even here he had not enough land.

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And people strive not for the good in life, but for goods they can call their own

Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man's future and thy own fate must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for anything.

During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything.

Maybe its because i rejoice over what i have and don't grieve over what i don't have".

If you look for perfection, you will never be content.

happiness that flooded his soul.

He liked it all, but he had already liked it so many times!

Her maternal instinct told her that Natasha had too much of something, and that because of this she would not be happy.

Ninguém está satisfeito com os bens que possui, mas todos estão satisfeitos com a inteligência que têm.

he had suddenly felt that wealth, power, and life—all that men so painstakingly acquire and guard—if it has any worth has so only by reason of the joy with which it can all be renounced.

Hayat?n?n bütün izleri sanki ona sar?lm?? ?öyle diyordu: "Hay?r, bizi b?rak?p gitmeyeceksin, ba?ka birisi olmayacaks?n, nas?lsan öyle kalacaks?n: Ku?kular?nla, kendinden sonsuz ho?nutsuzlu?unla, sonuçsuz kalan kendini düzeltme deneyimlerinle, ya?ad???n dü?ü?lerle ve senin için olanaks?z, sana nasip olmayacak sonsuz bir mutluluk beklentisiyle.

Having finished the newspaper, a second cup of coffee, and a kalatch with butter, he got up, brushed the crumbs from his waistcoat and, expanding his broad chest, smiled joyfully, not because there was anything especially pleasant in his heart - the smile was evoked by good digestion.

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them. —BLAISE PASCAL

to be loved is in your opinion as great a happiness as to love, and if a man obtains it, it is enough for his whole life. it is a misfortune to feel guilty because you do not something you cannot give

Una sonrisa iluminó su rostro; pero al mismo tiempo suspiró y su profunda mirada expresó una apacible tristeza. Como si además de la felicidad que experimentaba existiera otra, inaccesible en esta vida, que en aquel momento recordó involuntariamente.

He soon felt that the realization of his desires gave him no more than a grain of sand out of the mountain of happiness he had expected.

Perhaps because I rejoice in what I have, and don't fret for what I haven't,

all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.