Quotes About Contentment

If I die very young, hear this: I was never anything but a kid playing. I was a heathen like the sun and the water, I had the universal religion only people don't have. I was happy because I didn't ask for anything at all, Or tried to find anything, And I didn't find any more explanation Than the word explanation having no meaning at all.

I'm in no hurry. What for? The sun and moon aren't in a hurry: they're right. Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs, Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow. No; I don't know how to hurry.

Let's only care about the place where we are. There's beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else. If there's someone beyond the curve in the road, Let them worry about what's past the curve in the road, That's what the road is to them.

All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other, Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil. Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us. To want more is to lose this, and be unhappy.

Yes: I exist inside my body. I'm not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket. I don't want to conquer worlds because I slept badly, And I don't want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a stomach. Indifferent? No: a son of the earth, who, if he jumps, it's wrong, A moment in the air that's not for us, And only happy when his feet hit the ground again, Pow! In reality where nothing's missing! (6/20/1919)

Digo de mim 'sou eu'. E não digo mais nada. Que mais há a dizer?

Ai de ti e de todos que levam a vida A querer inventar a máquina de fazer felicidade!

Ni la perfección ni la madurez están entre mis metas.

O quam dulcis vita fuit dum sedabamus in quieti . . . inter liborum copias. : 'Oh how sweet life was when we sat quietly . . . midst all these books.

It must be a poor life that achieves freedom from fear

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Como la boca llena de risa, como el sexo lleno de semen,

Labios plegados sobre dientes felices.

The world is always greater then your desires; plenty is never enough.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

No harm comes to an honest man who minds his own business and knows his place.

He had a favorite sentence which he always used to conclude his harangues on such matters: No harm comes to an honest man who minds his own business and knows his place.

He aspired to a higher post, once it became vacant, and feared that time was running out. If he got what he wanted, you can be sure that his age would no longer matter to him. He would want nothing more, and he would die happy, as everyone assures us they will the moment they attain something they have wanted badly.

la patria e' dove si sta bene..

May we all be doomed to a happy life.