Quotes About Contentment

It's better to lose than never to have had. I lost something I never had. You had everything.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

Nevadí mi, když se nÄ›kdo usmívá na m?j ú?et, na tom ú?tu není skoro nic.

Eram ca doi prieteni. Pentru prima oara de cand ma stiam, m-am simtit in intregime bine.

I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment

That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Menachem's problem was this: he had more money than there were things to buy. Menachem's solution was this: rather than buy more things, he would continue to buy the things he already owned

Hoewel hij het bijna voortdurend betreurde dat hij zichzelf was, verwarde hij zichzelf nooit met het probleem. De wereld was het probleem. Die paste niet. Maar hoe vaak zou er ooit iemand gelukkiger zijn geworden door het laakbaarheidsrecord van de wereld te verbeteren?

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty

Once upon a time there was a man whose life was so good there's no story to tell about it.

She was unhappy, although unconvinced that her unhappiness wouldn't be someone else's happiness. She felt unfulfilled desire—profound amounts of it—but presumably so did every other married and unmarried person. She wanted more, but didn't know if there was more to be found. Not knowing used to feel inspiring. It felt like faith. Now it felt agnostic. Like not knowing.

There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Persiguiendo la felicidad nos alejamos de la satisfacción

Reduce what you have. Decrease what you want.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.

nunca acreditávamos ter muito dinheiro e que, quanto mais tínhamos, mais queríamos ter;

You westerners are the ones we can't understand. God has given you so much, you have been so blessed…why are so many people in your country so unhappy?

Suffering is having what you do not want, and wanting what you do not have. However, suffering is minimized when we equalize our desires to fit our circumstances. Subtract our wants, and we will be closer to contentment.

Oh, how we need to grasp the soul-settling hope found in the pages of God's Word--not only grasp it, but allow the hope of God to fill and overflow our hearts, transforming us into people who are confident and at peace with themselves, their God, and their circumstances.

Any complaints, any grumblings, any disputings or murmurings, any anxieties, any worries, any resentments or anything that hints of a raging torrent of bitterness--these are the things God calls me to die to daily.

Happiness is pretty boring, hard to take - in a word, a pain in the neck.