Quotes About Contentment

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

How to be happy Do not compare yourself to other people. Do not compare yourself to other people. Do not compare yourself to other people. Do not compare yourself to other people. Do not compare yourself to other people. Do not compare yourself to other people. Do not compare yourself to other people.

She didn't need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.

I looked around at all the certificates on the wall and felt thankful to come from a place where personal success was meaningless.

The hardest dream of all to achieve is the dream of not being tormented by our unlived dreams. To cope with and accept unfulfillment as a natural human condition

She liked this life – or more precisely, she liked the version of herself in this life.

Magazines are very popular, despite no human's ever feeling better for having read them. Indeed, their chief purpose is to generate a sense of inferiority in the reader that consequently leads to a feeling of needing to buy something, which the humans then do, and then feel even worse

Everything looked expensive and calm, as if calm was something you needed money to pay for.

Kita tidak membutuhkan apapun selain diri kita. Kita sudah cukup. Tempat kita disini, Kita sudah berada di tempat yang seharusnya.

If we demand the future be free from suffering in order to be happy, we can't be happy. It is like demanding the sea be entirely still before we sail on it.

never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

That is the nature of things. History was -is- a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards. But you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change.

Swimmer. Musician. Philosopher. Spouse. Traveller. Glaciologist. Happy. Loved. Nothing.

Like a dog himself. Why Want Another Universe If This One Has Dogs?

Don't envy things you wouldn't actually want. Don't absorb criticism from people you wouldn't go to for advice. Don't fear missing parties you would probably want to leave.

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.

Not to be Buddhist about it—okay, to be a little Buddhist about it—life isn't about being pleased with what you are doing, but about what you are being.

Per goderci la vita forse dovremmo smettere di pensare a quello che non riusciremo mai a leggere, guardare, dire e fare, e iniziare a pensare a come goderci il mondo all'interno dei nostri limiti. A come vivere in una dimensione umana.

Don't spend your life worrying about what you are missing out on. Not to be Buddhist about it- okay, to be a little Buddhist about it- life isn't about being pleased with what you are doing, but about what you are being.

to be Buddhist about it—okay, to be a little Buddhist about it—life isn't about being pleased with what you are doing, but about what you are being.

Want,' she told her, in a measured tone, 'is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe there is a life that you really want to live.

You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being.

Want...is an interesting word. It means lack...if we fill that lack with something else, the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem.