Quotes About Contentment

Era uno di quei momenti in cui, malgrado i nostri tormenti interiori, siamo segretamente contenti di non essere l'altro. Così si sferruzzano i lutti. Piccoli istanti di gioia tra gli assalti della disperazione, un diritto e un rovescio, fino alla felicità ritrovata di essere se stessi… Sì, deve essere questa, dopo tutto, la felicità: la soddisfazione di non essere l'altro.

A questão não é saber se tenho tempo para ler, mas se ofereço a mim próprio, ou não, a felicidade de ser leitor.

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

When we live to glorify God and not ourselves, we are answering the purpose for which God made us and redeemed us. It is in this kind of life alone that true and lasting joy, satisfaction, contentment, and pleasure are found. HOW

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

Water benefits all living things without taking credit for doing so. Indeed, after bestowing its life-giving benefits to field and stream, man and beast, water is perfectly content to puddle up and rest in the lowest, darkest places on earth. It falls as rain from the heavens and, when its work is done, it flows down into the deepest recesses of the earth. p7

I must say it's the one thing about growing old I don't mind. The eternal craving for female flesh has finally left me in peace.

quien tiene dos mujeres, pierde el alma, pero quien tiene dos casas pierde la razón.

He who has two women lose his soul. But he who has two homes loses his mind. – ancient proverb

who has two women loses his soul. But he who has two homes loses his mind.

are a man of extraordinary gifts. You don't need toys to make you happy.

If a man receives thirteen coins, he will hanker after sixteen, and possessing them he considers life unbearable unless he now earns forty. Nature, it might be observed, imposes strict boundaries on a person's height and age span, so that in even the most extreme instances no one can rise or fall too far or too short from the rest, whereas no such boundary inhibits money.

John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

I wish to live in peace with myself and not with the world.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.

Sometimes I look at myself and think, Is this it?, and then I think, Yes, it is. This is literally the best you will ever look. Tomorrow, you will look just a little bit worse, and this is how it will go, for ever.

And in His will is our peace.

The experience of this sweet life.

Your eyes smile peace.

Can peace be gained until I clasp my wombat?

Si no amas lo que tienes, Dios nunca te permitirá llegar a lo que deseas. Si no bendices tu Lea, tu realidad, nunca tendrás fruto con tu visión ni con tu sueño.

Never compare, thats the key for happyness. Learn from others but dont compare yourself to them, make your way and appreciate it.