Quotes About Contentment

I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer!

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar

I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy

One ought to drink, I think, when one is cheerful already. Otherwise nothing but more sorrow is poured into the cup.

Stephen Levine, a Buddhist teacher, says that hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else. Being constantly agitated—another word for nonaccepting—about the inevitable. Being in a relationship with someone and refusing to surrender to the love because you don't want to give yourself to something you will eventually lose.

We keep wanting more because we don't let ourselves have what we already have

When we're convinced we have to earn joy, we don't notice the ten thousand places in which it is already waiting, asking, waving for our attention.

hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.

You miss the life that happens in the middle zone—between now and what you think your life should be like. And when you miss those moments because you'd rather be doing something else, you are missing your own life. Those moments are gone. You will never get them back.

There isn't a someday. There never was. No one has ever been to the future that you keep putting your life on hold for. All we ever have is now. And if you continually put your life on hold for what your life will be like tomorrow, or the next year, or when you finally lose the weight, you won't recognize that you already have what you want because you will have spent years training yourself to want, not have.

Most people don't want what they want: people love to be prevented, restricted. The hamster not only loves his cage, he'd be lost without it.

When faced with too many alternatives and too much information, they satisfice (March and Simon 1958).

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife. You'll find God's plenty all you could desire; Of the remainder, better not enquire.

Jesús de Sirach afirma: «Quien tiene el corazón alegre y contento se conserva vigoroso a través de los años, pero un corazón entristecido reseca los huesos».

El más sabio de todos es el que no se preocupa ni pizca de que alguien sea más rico que él.»

Aunque pueda parecer dificil de soportar, la pobreza es una clase de riqueza que nadie tratará de quitarte.

The youngest of the three, who went to the town, turned over full oft in his mind the beauty of those gold coins, new and bright. "O Lord," said he, "if only it were so that I might have to myself all this treasure alone, there is no man who lives under the Throne of God who would be as merry as I!" And, at last, the Devil, our enemy, put into his thoughts that he should buy poison, with which he might slay his fellows two.

He who covets is a poor wretch, because he longs for what he can not have. But he who has naught, and covets naught, is rich, although you may think him but a lowly knave.

por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido.

If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

A happy familiy is but an earlier heaven.