Quotes About Contentment

I know that in life I shall never find anything beyond what I have found; thou thyself knowest not that thou art hoping yet continually, and seeking.

I renounced complete happiness in order to secure a part of it.

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Nuestra envidia siempre dura más que la felicidad de quien envidiamos" (Heráclito)

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.

Und ganz am Ende, in den freien Raum unter dem letzten Marchen, hatte sie mit ihrer windschiefen Schrift geschrieben: Und sie lebten glucklich und zufrieden. Paul und Ida auch.

I would like, at the end, to be able to see the tree outside the bedroom window, to sit or lie on the flower-filled sun porch, ... to feel that the children and friends, if they wanted to visit, could come to the place of beauty that [we] had shaped.

Timelessness is the ideal of pleasure.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

zo is het leven. voor hetzelfde geld had ik helemaal ergens anders gezeten, met geheel andere mensen. maar ik stel me niet meer de vraag: 'waar ben ik?' ik ben nu eenmaal waar ik ben, en dat al vele jaren lang. ik vecht niet tegen het lot, want zo'n gevecht eindigt toch altijd in een gelijkspel. als ik maar dag na dag ouder word, ben ik al tevreden.

geef me nu eindelijk wat ik altijd al had

Nog een geluk dat Zoals met de gek uit het grapje die zich voortdurend met een hamer op het hoofd sloeg, en naar de reden gevraagd, zei: "Omdat het zo prettig is, als ik ermee ophou"- zo is het een beetje met mij. Ik ben ermee opgehouden je te verliezen. Ik ben je kwijt. Misschien is dat geluk: een geluk bij een ongeluk. Misschien is geluk: Nog een geluk dat. Dat ik aan jou kan terugdenken, bv., in plaats van aan een ander.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

If I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Die wahren Siege sind die Stillen.

There was a sky. There was a body. And a planet underneath it. And it was all lovely. And it did not matter. He had never been happy before. And it did not matter.

Fiction harmless? Look at religion. Fiction harmless? Look at the oppressed masses content with their lot because they have embraced the lies imposed on them. History itself is just a fiction—a fiction with an army. And reality? Reality is a fiction with an unlimited budget. That's

She knew, then, that this solemn form of joy, so pure because it had no content, so reliable because it relied on nobody else, was the state for which she would henceforth strive.

Finding bliss becomes one with the fear of losing it.

The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.