Quotes About Contentment

Todos lo días descubro La espantosa realidad de las cosas: Cada cosa es lo que es. Qué difícil es decir esto y decir Cuánto me alegra y cómo me basta. Para ser completo existir es suficiente.

Should you ask me if I'm happy, I shall answer that I'm not.

To be content with what one is given shows an attitude fit for slaves; only children ask for more; only madmen want to conquer more, for every conquest is […]

Feliz, finalmente, quien renuncia a todo, y a quien, por renunciar a todo, nada le puede ser quitado o reducido.

My happiest moments are those when I think nothing, want nothing and dream nothing, being lost in a torpor like some accidental plant, like mere moss growing on life's surface. I savour without bitterness this absurd awareness of being nothing, this foretaste of death and extinction.

Baste a quem baste o que lhe basta; O bastante de lhe bastar!; A vida é breve, a alma é vasta:; Ter é tardar.

La grandeza de una bella puesta de sol me entristece con toda su hermosura. Ante ella suelo decir: el que es feliz debe sentirse contento al ver esto.

Renunciation is freedom. Not wanting is power.

Hacer del deseo algo inútil e inofensivo, una especie de sonrisa delicada del alma a solas consigo misma; hacer de ella algo que no piense nunca en realizar ni en decir.

Caesar aptly defined what ambition is all about when he said: 'Better to be first in the village than the second in Rome!' I'm nothing in the village and nothing in any Rome. The corner grocer is at least respected from the Rua da Assunção to the Rua da Vitória; he's the Caesar of a square city block. Me superior to him? In what, if nothingness admits neither superiority nor inferiority, nor even comparison?

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life. I love life too much to want it to be over; I love not living too much to have an active craving for life.

For days we slept wakefully, content to be nothing, to have no desires or hopes, to have forgotten the color of love or the taste of hatred.

Though naturally ambitious, he savored the pleasure of having no ambitions at all.

Let's not forget to hate those who enjoy, just because they enjoy, and to despise those who are happy, because we didn't know how to be happy like them.

Night will fall on all of us and the carriage will arrive. I enjoy the breeze given to me and the soul given to me to enjoy it and I ask no more questions, look no further.

A glória de um poente belo, com a sua beleza entristece-me . Ante ele eu digo sempre: como quem é feliz se deve sentir contente ao ver isto!

I find it so irritating, the happiness of all those men unaware of their unhappiness.

It's good to live alone, And noble and great Always to live simply.

Wise is the one who does not seek.

Ah! Querem uma luz melhor que a do Sol! Querem prados mais verdes do que estes! Querem flores mais belas do que estas que vejo! A mim este Sol, estes prados, estas flores, contentam-me. Mas, se acaso me descontentam, O que quero é um sol mais sol que o Sol, O que quero é prados mais prados que estes prados, O que quero é flores mais estas flores que estas flores — Tudo mais ideal do que é do mesmo modo e da mesma maneira!

Want little: you'll have everything. Want nothing: you'll be free.

As a man of ideals, perhaps my greatest aspiration really does not go beyond occupying this chair at this table in this café.

Only when night comes do I feel, if not happiness, at least some kind of repose which I experience as contentment

Baste a quem basta o que lhe basta O bastante de lhe bastar! A vida é breve, a alma é vasta: Ter é tardar.