Quotes About Contentment

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

A small heart hath small desires.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.

Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

You should have desires, but the desires should not have you.

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

Mum, mum, He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all, shall want some.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?

He who desires naught will always be free.