Quotes About Contentment

L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine were taken away.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

The mind of the dreaming man is fully satisfied with whatever happens to it. The agonizing question of possibility does not arise.

Réussir sa vie ? Il y a bien longtemps que le sage ne s'en préoccupe plus ! Vivre lui suffit, dans son insuffisance essentielle. Montaigne encore : « Je veux qu'on agisse, et qu'on allonge les offices de la vie tant qu'on peut, et que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux, mais nonchalant d'elle, et encore plus de mon jardin imparfait2845

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire.

He would have liked it if everyone could have what he dreamed, glory and love, fortune and peace of heart. [On F. Scott Fitzgerald]

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

The really important thing I've realized in the last year is that if we truly love we mustn't attach too much importance to the things that the people we love do. We need them; they alone mean we can live in a particular 'atmosphere' (your friend Helene calls it a 'climate' and that's exactly right) that we can't get by without. So long as we can keep them, hold on to them good God, what does the rest matter?

Nedaug rasime toki?, kurie gyvenime nepažino laim?s, bet dar mažiau toki?, kurie sugeb?jo j? išsaugoti.

la tristeza alivia y es rica

Si no llevo la contraria no puedo vivir contenta

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past

Maybe I don't know yet how to be happy and play well at the same time.

Spero di non arrivare mai al punto di pensare che alcune migliaia di dollari, in fondo, non sono poi molti soldi.

For me, that's the definition of being rich: it doesn't cross your mind to mention it to your best friend. And money is such a given you don't care how you come by it.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

satisfaction and the outer lock shut

Non credo rivedrà mai più la sua amica Laura. E se mai la rivedrà non penso che sarà in grado di riconoscerla" "Ma lei è riuscito a capire se era almeno felice?" "Felice? Non saprei, forse non è la parola giusta. Era... in armonia, ecco. In armonia con se stessa. E col mondo

That's how I get through," Jude said. "Focus on what's in front of me and find the joy in it.

Focus on what's in front of me and find the joy in it.