Quotes About Contentment

The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be.

Materialistic people, who think happiness comes from accumulating stuff and a superior status, had much higher levels of depression and anxiety.

Materialism is KFC for the soul.

For millennia, humans have talked about something called the Golden Rule. It's the idea that you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Tim, I think, has discovered something we should call the I-Want-Golden-Things Rule.17 The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be.

Armut ist ohne Zweifel das Schrecklichste, mir dürft' einer 10 Millionen hinlegen und sagen, ich soll arm sein dafür, ich nehmet's nicht.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Tobe, Welt, und springe; ich steh' hier und singe in gar sichrer Ruh'.

ease. One of them, an agreeable

Guai a coloro, dissi, che si servono dell'influenza che hanno su di un cuore per rapirgli le semplici gioie che esso sa procurare a se stesso!

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Do you wish to roam farther and farther?See! The Good lies so near.Only learn to seize good fortune,For good fortune's always here.

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

from desire I rush to satisfaction; from satisfaction I leap to desire.

Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.