Quotes About Contentment

practice cultivating a sense of completeness

And yet it was hard for him to recall the last time he had enjoyed a long string of days of simple, mindless physical well-being.

There can't only be bad things in life, otherwise the world would cease," said Tungdil. "Enjoy what you have.

Ich erinnere mich sehr gut, wie wenig Phantasie die meisten Menschen besaßen. Wahrscheinlich war das ein Glück für sie. Phantasie macht den Menschen überempfindlich, verletzbar und ausgeliefert. Vielleicht ist sie überhaupt eine Entartungserscheinung. Ich habe den Phantasielosen ihren Mangel nie angekreidet, manchmal habe ich sie sogar um ihn beneidet. Sie hatten ein leichteres und angenehmeres Leben als die anderen.

Nach einer Weile fing sie an, sich Vernunft zu predigen. Es war alles geschehen und nicht zu ändern, und im Grunde wünschte sie es gar nicht geändert. Wie immer sie ihr Leben gelebt hätte, heute würde sie auf diesem Stein sitzen, mit dem Verdacht in Herzen, den falschen Weg gegangen zu sein. Das Leben war einfach zu stark, um bewältigt zu werden.

Since I've been living in the forest I don't notice myself getting older. There's nobody there to draw my attention to it, after all. Nobody tells me how I look, and I never give it a thought myself.

Live gracefully in plenty and live gracefully in need. Embrace them both or swindle yourself out of half a life.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

Çember kapanm??t?. Olaya bundan fazla çaba, zaman ve tasa harcamaya gerek yoktu.

Benim önerim, mesaj?n tad?n? ç?kartman, sana iyi geleni yudumlaman ve geri kalan? tükürmen; dünyan?n yasas? da bu deÄŸil mi zaten?

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

sadness is not the absence of happiness, but the opposite of it.

I am content with much. This world never gives me anything, and yet I have everything I want.

Why should anybody want anybody? Just have nothing, just need nothing.

Learn to love your loopy life!

Our souls are satisfied one sip at a time.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

It was just one of the many absurdities she discovered being married to Alexander Cameron: having everything she had ever wanted yet having nothing at all.

It is hard to be happy without a life worth living. This is a fundamental tenet of DBT. Of course, all lives are worth living in reality. No life is not worth living. But what is important is that you experience your life as worth living—one that is satisfying, and one that brings happiness.

Acceptance is the freedom from needing your cravings satisfied.

the pleasureful feelings engendered by the fulfillment of those needs

The payoff for Ahimsa isn't that you upgrade the illusion, which is what the ego is always striving to do with more money, possessions, and power. The payoff is that you get to be who you really are.

In his book How to Make Yourself Miserable, Dan Greenburg demonstrates through humor the insidious power that comparative thinking can exert over us. He suggests that if readers have a sincere desire to make life miserable for themselves, they might learn to compare themselves to other people.

He was very pleased with the position he was now in. But he was as ready to leave this job, if it came to that. He always enjoyed himself no matter what he was doing because he did everything, even the smallest things, for the love of God.