Quotes About Contentment

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Her heart lurched and tears burned her eyes. "Surely you can escape." "Not this time." He captured a tear that rolled down her cheek. "Don't cry. You've given me more joy than I've ever known." "It's not enough." He gave her a sad grin. "That's how pirates are made. The plunder we take is never enough. We're never content with what we have. We always want more.

Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.

When you have that, you dream of this and when you have this, you dream of that. Maybe you call it romantic, but it's just plain stupidity. It destroys life.

Money is definitely needed, but how much money do we really need? If we would change our idea of a successful life to a joyful life, we would find our need for money would dramatically decrease.

The man who does only as much as is needed will only get that much.

People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate.

True human capabilities will not find expression in competition. True human capabilities will find expression only in absolute relaxation. Your mind, your body will work best, will find fullest expression, only when you are joyful and peaceful, and quiet within yourself.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

La vida es muy corta como para ser aburrido. Lo principal es quedar bien contigo mismo.

Me acuerdo de ti a cada instante, pero tú eres imposible y no estoy triste

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

But there was no use pretending: I was not the sort of person who counted blessings; I was the sort of person for whom there could never be enough blessings.

She had too much of everything, and so she longed to have less; less, she was sure, would bring her happiness. To me it was a laugh and a relief to observe the unhappiness that too much can bring; I had been so used to observing the reults of too little.

I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed. I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. I'm not fun to be with.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

If everything in the past has value, then there's no reason for regret, ever.

and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers in their mouths.

He felt that although his father loved their home and loved all of them, he was more lonely than the contentment of this family love could help; that it even increased his loneliness, or made it hard for him not to be lonely.

If you would have your home and your surroundings happy, be happy. You can transform everything around you if you will transform yourself.

Joy comes and fills the self-emptied heart; it abides with the peaceful; its reign is with the pure.