Quotes About Contentment

What did I lack then, anyway?

Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic.

If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control. This is the path of freedom and happiness. If you want not just peace and contentment, but power and wealth too, you may forfeit the former in seeking the latter, and will lose your freedom and happiness along the way.

Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.

But it is within your power to avoid disappointment, by directing your desires to things that are rightfully yours to obtain and control.

If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, for the pleasure of any one, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life. Be contented, then, in everything, with being a philosopher; and if you with to seem so likewise to any one, appear so to yourself, and it will suffice you.

It is no light thing, said he, to endure poverty uncomplainingly; and a difficult thing to bear wealth without becoming arrogant.

Follow not after vanity, nor after the enjoyment of love and lust! He who is earnest and meditative, obtains ample joy.

Jeff: I don't need a limousine to know who I am. At least I know I don't know.

You can never get enough of what you don't really need.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

You can never have enough of that which you don't need.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel like fighting. People who live full, worthwhile lives are not usually ready to die for their own interests nor for their country nor for a holy cause.9 Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

we can never have enough of that which we really don't want

you had to have happiness to miss happiness!

It was a very happy time in my life, and that was an important lesson too: to learn how little it took to be happy, to understand from a young age that the human heart is a small and delicate vase. You must handle it carefully, but in the right circumstances, it does not take much to fill it up.

You are the reason I wake up with a smile on my face, and the reason I go to sleep with a sense of belonging in this world

La lenteur, c'est ça le secret du bonheur.

Yo habré trabajado mucho toda la vida, pero he trabajado despacio, tomándome todo el tiempo del mundo. No buscaba hacer números o ver desfilar clientes, no. Ir despacio, ése es el secreto de la felicidad.

J'aurais travailler lentement, en prenant bien mon temps, je ne voulais pas faire du chiffre, ou voir défiler les clients, non. La lenteur, c'est ça, le secret du bonheur.

M'sieur Ibrahim, quand je dis que c'est un truc de gens riches, le sourire, je veux dire que c'est un truc pour les gens heureux. - Eh bien, c'est là que tu te trompes. C'est sourire, qui rend heureux. [- M. Ibrahim, when I say a smile is a rich people thing, I mean it's a happy people thing. - Well, that's where you're wrong. Smiling is what makes you happy.]

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It's smiling that makes you happy.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.