Quotes About Contentment

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

You don't need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.