Quotes About Contentment

A true Zen saying: Nothing is what I want.

Man is always so," said Father Willibald, "be he heathen or baptized; content with his lot only as long as he meets no neighbor who possesses more.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

I can't think of anything to write about, I'm just walking around here between the lines, under the light of your eyes, in the breadth of your mouth as in a beautiful happy day, which remains beautiful and happy, even when the head is sick and tired.

it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.

There am I. I cannot leave. I have nothing to complain about. I do not suffer excessively, for I do not suffer consistently, it does not pile up, at least I do not feel it for the time being, and the degree of my suffering is far less than the suffering that is perhaps my due.

Down Here and up there are all the same to me. Whether I lie here in the gutter and stow away the rain water or drink champagne up there with the same lips makes no difference to me, not even in the taste.

Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.

If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

Hier war es wohl die Müdigkeit inmitten glücklicher Arbeit; etwas, was nach außen hin wie Müdigkeit aussah und eigentlich unzerstörbare Ruhe, unzerstörbarer Frieden war.

Teoricamente, só há uma possibilidade perfeita de felicidade: acreditar no indestrutível em si sem a ele aspirar.

The contentment today in my room. Hollow as a shell on the beach, ready to be crushed by a footstep

De que te queixas, alma abandonada? Porque razão esse voo agitado em torno da casa da vida? Porquê não olhar os longes que te pertencem em vez de lutar contra o que te é alheio? Mais vale o pombo vivo no telhado que o pardal semimorto que, na mão, se debate, crispado de terror.

he gave way to a pleasant lassitude

Incerteza, secura, silêncio. É nisto que tudo passará. Que tenho de comum com os judeus? Só dificilmente tenho alguma coisa de comum comigo próprio e deveria manter-me muito quieto a um canto, contente por poder respirar.

Huzur mu istiyorsun ? Az insan, az eÅŸya

Which of us would not have been happy under Alexander's radiant gaze? But Diogenes frantically begged him to move out of the way of the sun. That tub was full of ghosts.

Der Sinn für die Darstellung meines traumhaften innern Lebens hat alles andere ins Nebensächliche gerückt, und es ist in einer schrecklichen Weise verkümmert und hört nicht auf, zu verkümmern. Nichts anderes kann mich jemals zufriedenstellen.