Quotes About Contentment

When you want something and you don't have it, it may be a cause of stress to you. However, if we reflect on how we came to have things that were not there originally, we can be excited, delighted, and grateful that we want something even before we have it. Seen from this perspective, wanting something—or more specifically, being able to want something while it is not there yet—is already a gift in itself. !is is why we offer gratitude.

Happiness does not come only when you get something even greater. It's something you feel when you hope for less and are sufficiently satisfied with what you have now" (104).

deleite. —Tanta indulgencia

el que tiene dinero quiere más; nunca lo ha regalado y nunca lo hará.

When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures

Por mucho que escuchara, siempre hablaban de lo mismo, la libertad, pero no decían ni una palabra de la sopa. Yo estaba, por supuesto, muy contento de que fuéramos libres, pero no podía evitar pensar que el día anterior no había ocurrido nada por el estilo, pero teníamos sopa.

??i s?ng h?nh phúc là má»™t ??i s?ng câm l?ng...

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

Had not in hours of peace, It learned to lightly look on life.

That's what you really need is self-love. That's the answer to a lot of problems.

This history of wanting, Mahabat," Sharif said slowly. "I have learned this much. It is better to want than to have a desire fulfilled. Once it is . . . it has little importance. So it will be for the Emperor.

I love to smile.

When someone is living in the vapors of his happiness, when he no longer has many words at his disposal, simply "God bless you", "May God reward you," then people should not attempt to wash him, should not wash off what is good for him, should not try and clean him up for a new life that does not exist.

Nicht Schöneres unter der Sonne als unter der Sonne zu sein.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored." ? Earl Nightingale Catherine

With amusement in her eyes, Becca took a sip of her tea

The sun might not always shine on us. But those will be the days that we take pleasure in the rain. ?

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~ Confucius

I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven't read, find out things I haven't yet found out. I want to write things I haven't written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.