Quotes About Contentment

Buddha agreed with modern biology and New Age movements that happiness is independent of external conditions. Yet his more important and far more profound insight was that true happiness is also independent of our inner feelings. Indeed, the more significance we give our feelings, the more we crave them, and the more we suffer. Buddha's recommendation was to stop not only the pursuit of external achievements, but also the pursuit of inner feelings.

People pursue wealth and power, acquire knowledge and possessions, beget sons and daughters, and build houses and palaces. Yet no matter what they achieve, they are never content.

We don't become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon. Dramatic improvements in conditions, as humankind has experienced in recent decades, translate into greater expectations rather than greater contentment.

Rather, happiness consists in seeing one's life in its entirety as meaningful and worthwhile.

being satisfied with what you already have is far more important than getting more of what you want.

Yet even when we experience pleasant things we are never content. We either fear that the pleasure might disappear, or we hope that it will instensify

The more you know, the less you need.

É deixar de procurar no outro o que ele nunca será capaz de lhe dar, e desenvolver esses sentimentos em você, manifestando-os em tudo que fizer, como cuidar da sua saúde, da sua beleza física, alimentar seu espírito aumentando seu conhecimento de assuntos que lhe causam prazer. Tudo isso causa grande bem-estar. Cultivar a beleza em tudo que fizer, faz muita diferença.

happiness is nothing other than the enjoyment of the highest good,

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where I could be myself all the time.

I think that in life you don't need too much; you need friends, you need to do what you like doing.

Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world?

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing -- and you will have it all!

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

Happiness doesn't care how you get there.

Comfort is a double-edged sword. A little will increase health and happiness; too much -- and it will destroy both.

Who is to say which is better--to hunger and be fed, or to be fed so continuously that you never know hunger? Sometimes a little fasting is good for the soul. Think of a cold drink of water after an afternoon in the hayfield.

I had felt the strange happiness countless times. When a shovel met my hand, the damp of a hemp bag soaked my shoulder or rice weighed down my back, I entered a mindless oblivion, as if I had put on magic shoes and could jump out into the abyss, could even jump into death.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

I have heard that he who knows what is enough will not let himself be entangled by thoughts of gain; that he who really understands how to find satisfaction will not be afraid of other kinds of loss; and that he who practices the cultivation of what is within him will not be ashamed because he holds no position in society.

The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged without delight; he went back in without a fuss. He came briskly, he went briskly, and that was all. He didn't forget where he began; he didn't try to find out where he would end. He received something and took pleasure in it; he forgot about it and handed it back again.