Quotes About Contentment

In life, most people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.

Most people settle in life with no satisfaction. Winners are satisfied without ever settling.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

I wish people could accomplish everything they want so they could learn its not everything they need.

as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.

The trouble is that, as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for. Some feel they have time but not enough money; others feel they have money but not enough time. But for most of us, in the midst of material plenty, we have spiritual poverty.

The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would have thought that there could be so many things that I can do without?"4

Pascal and his brilliant exposition in Pensées. "I have often said," Pascal wrote, "that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room."46

We live in an age in which the overwhelming majority of people appear to be comfortable with their myopia.

Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.

The weak fear happiness itself.

But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting.

I wonder if I have ever actually been happy. People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as if I were suffering in hell. It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I.

I wonder if I have actually been happy. People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as if I were suffering in hell.

Can't a man be satisfied without having to beat everybody at everything?

Lo? dükkân?n içinde oturmu? gülümseyen Yo?iko'nun beyaz yüzü. Kir pas tutmaz "bekâret" sözcü?ü bile hafif kal?r.

como bastante; pero no recuerdo haberlo hecho nunca por hambre.

Me pregunto si soy feliz.

I felt, rather, as if being next to her in itself made it unnecessary to worry.

Poverty is nothing. As long as you love me, all I want is to spend my whole life by your side.

Those days, as I remember them now, were the last in which the dying embers of happiness still glowed.

Ah, to be one of those crows, who know nothing of wealth and poverty!

Everyone wants to lead a peaceful, happy life, but happiness and success aren't measured by how much money you have, but by whether you have inner peace in your heart.

Happiness is something that happy people are always looking to increase or amplify, while those lacking it are always trying to find.