Quotes About Contentment

What ruins happiness is fear

Só há dois modos de descobrir que a Terra é redonda: ou estudando em livros, ou sendo feliz.

Para ter o que eu tinha eu nunca precisara nem de dor nem de talento. O que eu tinha não me era conquista, era dom.

La oración profunda no es aquella que pide, la oración más profunda es la que ya no pide.

Sofremos por ter tão pouca fome, embora nossa pequena fome já dê para sentirmos uma profunda falta de prazer que teríamos se fôssemos de fome maior.

Happiness is anyone and anything at all, that's loved by you.

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded.

I don't think I'm made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

Here I am surrounded by the things I love. I spend my time in the open, on the beach in stormy weather or when the fishing boats put out [...] In the evenings, my dear friend, there is a warm fire in my cottage, and the cosiness of a small family [...] I am now enjoying a spell of quiet, free of chores. Ideally I should like to stay in a peaceful nook like this for ever.

En resumen, no os enfadéis, o por lo menos, no os turbéis porque os habéis turbado, no os alteréis porque os habéis alterado, no os inquietéis porque esas molestas pasiones os han inquietado; tomad vuestro corazón y ponedlo suavemente en manos de nuestro Señor (Carta a una señora, 833). Haced que vuestro corazón vuelva a estar en paz con vos misma, aunque estéis tan llena de miserias» (Carta 186).

When I cast my mind back and compare it with the treadmill stress that my life is now, I think ah, those were the days. I didn't know I was born. Sometimes it's not being at the top that's the truly joyous part of success, it's getting there.

Being an old maid is a little bit like drowning. A really delightful sensation once you give up the struggle.

Intentá ser feliz sin mentiras ni delirios", escribió el abuelo en la carta dirigida a mí, la que podía leer solo. Que hubiera elegido el verbo intentar me resultó clave:

He who desires is always poor.

Suleika knows that she is only a passing moment, the crest of a wave or the hem of a cloud, but she is soberly content to be, do an instant, the embodiment of that flow.

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. —Steve Jobs

One of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

He was beginning to grasp the human equation: to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

was beginning to grasp the human equation: to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Always wear a happy face.

A humble life is not so impressive as compared to a more lavish life. But there is serenity in the simplicity of living.