Quotes About Contentment

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

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A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have.

Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things.

Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.

And Marco's answer was: 'Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the former that strike you, the impurities, the flaws; in short, you can only really feel safe with nothingness.

Il viaggiatore riconosce il poco che è suo, scoprendo il molto che non ha avuto e non avrà.

if your cart is empty and the others are full, you can only hold out so long: then you're overwhelmed by envy, heartbreak, and you can't stand it.

Ayl was a happy inhabitant of the silence that reigns where all vibration is excluded; for her anything that looked likely to break the absolute visual neutrality was a harsh discord; beauty began for her only where the greyness had extinguished even the remotest desire to be anything other than grey.

The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

La ciudad se te aparece como un todo en el que ningún deseo se pierde y del que tú formas parte, y como ella goza de todo lo que tú no gozas, no te queda sino habitar ese deseo y contentarte.

Non era molto, ma a me che non cercavo altro che immagini da tenere negli occhi, forse bastava.

El viajero reconoce lo poco que es suyo al descubrir lo mucho que no ha tenido y no tendrá.

Forse pagavo la felicità con la rinuncia a capire quello che vivevo

L'uomo contento non aveva camicia.

Kdybych si mohl vybrat, pak bych se nenarodil. Ale když to už musí být, pak se chci s tím osudem smí?it a být š?astný.

THAT BEGAN a spell of time when the high point of my days was the sugar on my cereal.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

Nikada više ne planiram. Ja samo živim ovaj život. Ponekad kako želim, ponekad kako moram. Sitnice mi boje život. Sitnice su sre?a. Zato ja volim male stvari. I velike torbe. Svuda ih sa sobom nosim, jer sebi dugujem još poneku šetnju izme?u o?ekivanog i neplaniranog.

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

No man can lose what he never had.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.