Quotes About Contentment

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

Take patience as your pillow, hug poverty, discard lusts, oppose your desires and know that you are seen by God, so look at how you are.

The highest stage of Man's ethical progress is reached when he becomes absolutely free from fear and grief.

I moved a part of my bed a little distance away from the domain of fear and desire.

Charat Singh's generous promise had called forth that trait of servility in Bakha which he had inherited from his forefathers, the weakness of the down-trodden, the helplessness of the poor and the indigent, suddenly receiving help, the passive contentment of the bottom dog suddenly illuminated by the prospect of fulfilment of a secret and long-cherished desire.

mutlu musunuz peki?" "huzurluyum. Mutluluk benim icin hicbir zaman onemli olmadi. Daha cok raslanti gibi yasadim mutlulugu. Kisa anlarin hediyesi gibi. Yasamin karsima cikardigi bazi anlar benim icin mutluluk demekti, o kadar...

It is an ironic footnote on Peter Stuyvesant's frenzy at the idea of surrender that he passed his last days, in the late 1660s and early 1670s, in peaceful contentment on his farm in Manhattan, not only unmolested but in friendship with Governor Nicolls. Shorn of power, Peter Stuyvesant was a happier and perhaps a wiser man.

Happiness is everybody's birthright

My thatched hut; the whole sky Is its roof The mountains are its hedge, And it has the sea for a garden. I'm inside with nothing at all, Not even a bag, And yet there are visitors who say " It's hidden behind a bamboo door" — Muso Soseki

Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

The less testosterone, the more you enjoy being alone.

You may remain a virgin for life, but you will be a rich virgin.

All you need in life is full freedom, then peace will come by itself.

Better to be poor in possessions rather than in thoughts and your way of reasoning.

By feeling the sunshine, or pleasure, we end up forgetting all of our miseries, or pains in life.

By wanting less, you'll have more time on your sleeves. Only by wanting more, will you end up wasting your precious time on things that don't matter in life.

Everyone thinks and imagines that life is easier on the other side. Their minds swing like a pendulum.

For those who wish for great worldly possessions, you must forget about having health and peace of mind too.

Freedom is a matter of sacrifice. Once you overcome these challenges, you will surely enjoy peace of mind for a lifetime.

Give little thought to food. For, the stomach is never satisfied and it can never be satisfied for a lifetime.

Happiness will seek for you only when you cease running away from the things that you call evil.

Health gives satisfaction, but not so much with pleasure in the sense of indulging oneself.

How can you find peace or label yourself as being 'free' while you are still terrified of Mondays?!