Quotes About Contentment

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

it's perfectly possible to live without expecting anything of life; in fact, it's the most common way.

Men in general don't know how to live: they have no true familiarity with life, and never feel entirely at ease in it, so they pursue different projects, more or less ambitious and more or less grandiose – generally speaking, of course, they fail and reach the conclusion that they would have been better off just living, but as a rule by that point it's too late.

When men have no vices, she thought, it's very difficult to guess what might make them happy.

Happy are those who are satisfied by life, who amuse themselves, who are content.

Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des risques.

Nezanedbávajte ni?, ?o by vám mohlo priniesÃ…Â¥ trochu rovnováhy. Š?astie na vás tak ?i tak ne?aká; to je už ve?mi dlho isté. Ale ak sa vám podarí zachytiÃ…Â¥ niektorú z napodobenín Å¡Å¥astia, chyÃ…Â¥te ju. Neváhajte. Tak ?i onak to dlho nepotrvá.

Life without anything to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life and that can lead you to take risks.

No temáis a la felicidad: no existe.

Fox se tumbó a mi lado y suspiró suavemente. Iba a morir junto a mí, y lo sabía; ya era un perro viejo; se durmió casi enseguida.

I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love.

Wydr??y?em dziurk? w piasku, wsun??em tam oba dzie?a; teraz problem polega? na tym, ?e musia?em poszuka? sobie czego? do czytania. Zycie bez czytania jest niebezpieczne, trzeba zadowoli? si? samym ?yciem, a to niesie ze sob? pewne ryzyko.

Podría haberme pasado horas mirándola. Era un placer fácil, inocente, eternamente alegre; una pura promesa de felicidad.

Was I capable of being happy in solitude? I didn't think so. Was I capable of being happy in general? That's the kind of question, I think, that is best not asked.

El efecto beneficioso de la compañía de un perro proviene de que es posible hacerlo feliz; pide cosas tan simples, su ego es tan limitado...

The thought of having become an item in a file calms me. I imagine the volume, its cloth binding; its slightly sad cover; I gently flatten myself between the pages; I am squashed.

Pero dentro de ella me sentí bien en el acto; creo que había olvidado lo bueno que era. O a lo mejor es que nunca había sido tan bueno, a lo mejor nunca había sentido tanto placer. A los cuarenta y siete años... La vida es extraña.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

Var jeg i stand til at være lykkelig i min ensomhed? Det regnede jeg ikke med. Var jeg i stand til at blive lykkelig i det hele taget? Den slags spørgsmål tror jeg man gør klogest i at undgå at stille sig selv.

Bantu Philosophy: People cling to life and are not yet at the stage where they wil fight for the quality of that life. They feel as long as they are surviving, that is enough.

I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.

I'm like a stray cat. If you feed me, I don't leave.

While you wait for your godly man, you should maintain the posture of a well-kept woman [...] The person should add to, not take away from, your life. You maintain who you are and allow God to be picky for you.

You've got two witnesses here. Happiness is a wholeness issue. If you want to be happy, you need to be whole. If you want to be married, you simply need a mate. If you want to be happily married, you need to be a whole person married to another whole person.