Quotes About Contentment

To want is to lack. That is what it means.

Be happy with your own self, minus upgrades. Stop dreaming of imaginary goals and finishing lines. Accept what marketing doesn't want you to: you are fine. You lack nothing.

We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest. We don't need another world. Everything we need is here, if we give up thinking we need everything. Invisible sharks One frustration with anxiety is that it is often hard to find a reason behind it.

We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest. We don't need another world. Everything we need is here, if we give up thinking we need everything.

The best of life exists beyond the things we are encouraged to crave.

To enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries. To live on a human scale. To focus on the few things we can do, rather than the millions of things we can't

we are encouraged to desire this state of affairs. 'Embrace' the future and 'let go' of the past. The whole of consumerism is based on us wanting the next thing rather than the present thing we already have. This is an almost perfect recipe for unhappiness.

we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries.

And she didn't want to live any other life than the one that was hers.

Ik heb nooit een gezelliger kameraad gevonden dan de eenzaamheid. (Thoreau)

THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn't very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more?

But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

You are here. And that is enough.

They pretend to know that money can't buy them happiness, yet they would choose money every time. They celebrate mediocrity at every available opportunity and love to see others' misfortune.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it . . . but love it. Friedrich Nietzsche

In this world of interdependence, opposite emotions are also connected. As William Blake put it "joy and woe are woven fine". I know this because one of the reasons I love life is because I was once suicidal. I have sincerely known moments of content in my life for having gone through years of hell.

Couldn't aspects of how we live in the modern world be responsible for how we feel in the modern world? Not just in terms of the stuff of modern life, but its values, too. The values that cause us to want more than we have. To worship work above play. To compare the worst bits of ourselves with the best bits of other people.

scrolling through other people's happy lives, waiting for something to happen.

Do not seek out stuff that makes you unhappy. Do not measure your own worth against other people. Do not seek to define yourself against. Define what you are for. And browse accordingly.

Pentru a avea sansa la fericire trainica, trebuie sa te calmezi. Trebuie doar sa fii in acel lucru si sa il faci pur si simplu.

Por qué querer otro universo cuando en este hay perros?

I am coming to realise how wrong many of my aspirations have been. How locked out of the present I have found myself. How I have always wanted more of whatever was in front of me. I need to find a way to stay still, in the present, and, as my nan used to say, be happy with what you have.

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don't have to do everything in order to be

Nu-ti irosi viata facandu-ti griji pentru lucrurile pe care le ratezi. N-as vrea sa sune ca o insemnare budista - desi, de acord, e oarecum budista-, dar viata nu e despre a fi fericit cu ceea ce faci, ci despre a fi fericit cu ceea ce esti.