Quotes About Contentment

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

All envy is proportionate to desire.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

No one can have all he desires.

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.