Quotes About Contentment

Aber natürlich. Wir müssen alle gleich sein. Nicht gleich und frei geboren, wie es in der Verfassung steht, sondern gleich gemacht. Jeder das Abbild aller anderen; dann sind alle glücklich, denn es gibt keine Berge, vor denen sie sich ducken, an denen sie sich messen müssen.

Chúng ta có t?t c? nh?ng gì chúng ta c?n ?? h?nh phúc, nhÆ°ng chúng ta không h?nh phúc

Will listened, cold but warming, glad to be in with a roof above, floor below, wall and door between too much exposure, too much freedom, too much night.

Mutlu olmam?z için gerekli her ÅŸeye sahibiz, ama mutlu deÄŸiliz. Bir ÅŸey eksik.

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.

Now, look, since when did you think being good meant being happy?" "Since always." "Since now learn otherwise. Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles and smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. The seal-barker, the laugh-shouter, half the time he's covering up. He's had his fun and he's guilty. And men do love sin

Aha! Mine all mine. My life savings. Look at all that snow there. Very comforting. I've got enough here to buy everything I want in the world, but I'm not going to because I'd sooner have the money.

It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.

Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please This also became Conrad's epitaph.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

I have been very happy—very fortunate—very proud,' she went on. 'Too fortunate. Too happy for a little while. And now I am unhappy for—for life.

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral.

One lives too long. Happy X-mas.

He sighed with content, with regret as well at having to part from the serenity which fostered the adventurous freedom of his thoughts.

Of course there are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten before the end is told—before the end is told—even if there happens to be any end to it.

man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.

he takes things as he finds them, and makes enjoyment of them somehow or other

We were not rich, but my parents had adjusted their lifestyle to their incomes—and in the end that is a big part of the battle.

Bette Newboldt, our unappeasable feminist whom, I'm fairly certain, God Himself could not have made happy;

Mindfulness, the Root of Happiness

Having been through both of those other stages, our mind matures to a place where it is no longer moved: it does not grasp at pleasant things; it is not repelled by unpleasant things. Our mind attains deep, deep balance, like a calm, deep-flowing river. Out of this mature place of equanimity, the conditions arise that open our mind suddenly to the unconditioned, to what is beyond body and mind, to freedom.

Covetousness keeps the mind agitated and unhappy, far from the peace of contentment.