Quotes About Contentment

People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions of justice, freedom, law and order, nature, family, etc. The writer, lone rider, has the power, if not always the skills, wisdom, or desire, to disturb this false contentment.

If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him and nothing anyone can do to hurt him.

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

I do not worry about dying – when you get to my age you never think about it, you just carry on with life and enjoy it.' Vernon Jones - Ox & Bucks Light Infantry - D-Day Veteran

Is happy the same as contented do you think?... as I see it, happiness is something that comes in bursts from outside – love at first sight, winning at chess, getting good news. Happiness is something that seizes you. ...I think of contentment as an everyday thing. It's what you feel when you don't want anything more – until you do. It's nice, but it needs a shot of happiness now and again.

I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment.

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment

Reality could be painful to acknowledge, but there came a point when we all realized we weren't going to walk on the moon, star in a Hollywood movie, or be president of the United States. We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

The only place people find fulfillment is within themselves. And too often, that's the last place they look.

Inner needs drive external accomplishments but can never be satisfied by those external accomplishments. Which is merely to say that, for some people, the inability to be satisfied is a chronic condition.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.

The feet-on-the-stove stance of this book is a deliberate attempt to cure myself, and anyone else who will listen, of the nasty habit of worrying the world to pieces like a terrier with a rag. What we are up to here is not the hasty shaking loose of a culinary result, but a patient rumination on cooking itself. There are more important things to do than hurry.

The poor man may envy the rich their houses, their lands, and their cars; but given a good wife, he rarely envies them their table.

I think that anyone who reaches the age of three or four has more than likely already had all the misery he or she needs.

Si sé que no tengo «algo», no tengo que poseerlo. Y si no poseo nada, puedo tenerlo «todo». Enseguida, otro pensamiento sacudió al Caballero: ?Saber que no poseo nada significa no tener nada que defender... y saber que no sé nada significa que no tengo que demostrar nada. ¿Estoy en lo cierto?

My Cup" They tell me I am going to die. Why don't I seem to care? My cup is full. Let it spill

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.