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Quotes About Contentment

The person who has not seen the face of trust - has seen nothing. The person who has not found contentment - has found nothing.
~ Idries Shah
If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.
~ Idries Shah
La satisfacción es un tesoro que no decae.
~ Idries Shah
The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.
~ Idries Shah
No ser codicioso es, paradójicamente, la más elevada forma de mirar por los verdaderos intereses de uno.
~ Idries Shah
Si tienes dos camisas, vende una y con el dinero compra una flor".
~ Idries Shah
Recuerda que la codicia incluye la codicia de no ser codicioso.
~ Idries Shah
el Sufi es "alguien que no se preocupa cuando le quitan algo, pero que no cesa de buscar lo que no tiene.
~ Idries Shah
Pobre avaro, donde quiera que vaya, él persigue alimentos, y la muerte lo persigue a él. (Saadi)
~ Idries Shah
Abu-Yaqub al-Susi declara que el Sufi es "alguien que no se preocupa cuando le quitan algo, pero que no cesa de buscar lo que no tiene.
~ Idries Shah
Si eres codicioso, eres un prisionero. Si eres avaro, nunca serás llenado.
~ Idries Shah
Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.
~ Idries Shah
Saadi: Sé un verdadero renunciador (zahid) e incluso podrás usar raso.
~ Idries Shah
Man has less than he suspects of: time, friends, hopes, qualities. Idries Shah - Caravan of Dreams
~ Idries Shah
Quien que no ha visto el rostro de la confianza, no ha visto nada. Quien que no ha encontrado la complacencia, no ha encontrado nada.
~ Idries Shah
Chi non abbia visto il volto della fiducia non ha visto nulla. Chi non abbia provato la contentezza non ha trovato nulla.
~ Idries Shah
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
~ Idries Shah
Nadie renuncia a algo si no es por algo mejor. Más que luchar contra tus limitaciones, concéntrate en tus habilidades, más que luchar contra el mal, concéntrate en el bien. La felicidad es lo que no tienes, o la revalorización de lo que tienes.
~ Unknown
For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
~ Unknown
Il sorriso è la causa, non l'effetto, della felicità
~ Unknown
ten dumb years I wanted things to be different furious proud I still feel it
~ Ikkyu
no walls no roof no anything my house doesn't get wet doesn't get blown down
~ Ikkyu
There is a serious discrepancy between what we really wants, and what we usually do to get what we think we want. What we really want is to fill the hole inside and become complete, and what we do is look for success and growth outside.
~ Ilchi Lee