Quotes About Contentment

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Instead, the key to happiness and fulfilment lies in what we would call a psychological attitude

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

For this reason we should not take any confidence from the fact that our soul is contented and satisfied with what we have, given that it has no way of knowing its illness and its imperfection in this, if there is one. It is impossible to say anything to that blind man by reasoning, argument, or analogy that accommodates in his imagination any apprehension of light, color, and vision. There is nothing further that can make the sense evident.

Do not fret because of evildoers, Nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. (Psalm 37:1)

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

The night fled away in the joy on their reunion.

Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.

You never forget, you never get rid of it. It sets you apart from other people. That's not to say I'm never happy. But I know the difference.

Warum sollte nicht fehlen können, was man nie besaß?

But, modest though it was, the building had always felt to Paolo like an anteroom of heaven.

Life, even one as long as mine, is all about being grateful for the little things.

the Buddha whimsically pointed out that seeking happiness in one's material desires is as absurd as "suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes.

neither self nor wealth can be measured in terms of what you consume or own. Even

From all your herds, a cup or two of milk, From all your granaries, a loaf of bread, In all your palace, only half a bed: Can man use more? And do you own the rest? —ANCIENT SANSKRIT POEM

You can't always get what you want But if you try sometime you find You get what you need

Szcz??cie dla mnie to brak l?ku.

Aš jau seniai nebesileidžiu apkvailinamas savo ?kv?pimo, ir jei vis dar svajoju paversti pasaul? laimingu sodu, tai dabar jau žinau, kad darau tai ne iš meil?s žmon?ms, o iš meil?s sodams.

Lila was in no hurry to leave; it was pleasurable for her to see herself in my silently adoring gaze, where she reigned—I was her kingdom....

h?nh phúc là cái gì Ä'ó có th? ??t tá»›i, ch? c?n tìm th?y thiên hÆ°á»›ng sâu xa trong mình r?i h?t lòng vá»›i nh?ng gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên c? b?n thân.

He wondered, with some annoyance, whether he would finally learn what he wanted to know, or if he would have in the end to content himself with what he already knew. He felt that, at his age, patience was ceasing to be a virtue and was becoming a luxury he could less and less afford.

His thoughts too were weary, and he felt a little sad to be so very old; it meant he had not much time left and would have to content himself with what he knew already.

All that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.