Quotes About Contentment

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.

Spirituality is the ability to say - It is OK, in every circumstance.

Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would've worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would've then better lead them on to happiness.

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

I get much more respect, as befits my age. And I have nothing to complain about.

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect.

Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy.