Quotes About Contentment

The existence of multiple alternatives makes it easy for us to imagine alternatives that don't exist—alternatives that combine the attractive features of the ones that do exist. And to the extent that we engage our imaginations in this way, we will be even less satisfied with the alternative we end up choosing. So, once again, a greater variety of choices actually makes us feel worse.

Knowing what's good enough requires knowing yourself and what you care about. So: Think about occasions in life when you settle, comfortably, for "good enough"; Scrutinize how you choose in those areas; Then apply that strategy more broadly.

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.

It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

Poverty wants few things, avarice everything.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

In so far as we understand, we can desire nothing but that which must be, nor, in an absolute sense, can we find contentment in anything but truth.

that he that is strong hates no man, is angry with no man, envies no man, is indignant with no man, despises no man, and least of all things is proud.

You already own what you think you need.

Don't need what you want. Want what you need.

Happy is the man who can recognise in the work of Today a connected portion of the work of life, and an embodiment of the work of Eternity ...

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Everybody here is a dictator of something or other. They're all office holders. That's what keeps them contented. But I'm the Supreme Dictator of all, and I'm elected once a year. This is a democracy, you know, where the people are allowed to vote for their rulers. A good many others would like to be Supreme Dictator, but as I made a law that I am always to count the votes myself, I am always elected.

If we used money to buy things with, instead of love and kindness and the desire to please one another, then we should be no better than the rest of the world.... Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason.

A joyful mind will never live in isolation.

Nothing's gonna change my world.

I don't care too much for money For money can't buy me love

Forse essere a casa è questo, non avere il bisogno e nemmeno la pretesa di vedere tutto bello. Guardare le cose come sono, vederle intere, senza offenderle.

We are all in natural high, It was better than dope or booze or anything.

I used to be one of those guys with a lot of angst, you know? I just don't anymore. I'm not angst-ridden anymore. I've faced reality of what I am and what I have to do in life.

A little while ago, I had this realization that so much of my happiness depended on what my career was looking like at that time, and that's, like, death of happiness right there.

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

You realize just by writing down everything you own that it's just materialistic stuff. We are much more than that.