Quotes About Contentment

Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.

All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. We see striving everywhere inhibited in many ways, struggling everywhere; and thus always suffering; there is no final goal of striving, and therefore no bounds or end to suffering.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

For what a man is in himself, what accompanies him when he is alone, what no one can give or take away, is obviously more essential to him than everything he has in the way of possessions, or even what he may be in the eyes of the world. An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theatres, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard.

The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]

To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil.

happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end.

In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.

Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health.

Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment ... falling asleep, and the unhappiest moment of the unhappy that of his awaking

There is no happiness on earth to compare with that which a beautiful and fruitful mind finds in a propitious hour within itself.

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

Natura se amuza citeodata formind combinatii caraghioase. Sint unii care-ntr-una casca ochii la nimicuri si rid ca papagalii in fata unui simplu cintaret din cimpoi; iar altii au o infatisare asa de posomorita, incit nici macar n-ar suride auzind o gluma buna. Nu s-a spus adesea ca, in fond, spiritul cel mai limitat este cel mai fericit?

Caci avutia este ca apa sarata: cu cat bei cu atat ti-e mai este. La fel este si gloria.

La felicidad pertenece a los que bastan a sí mismos.

Por sabedoria entendo a arte de tornar a vida mais agradável e feliz possível.

Guardando tutto ciò che non abbiamo, siamo soliti pensare: E se fosse mio?, e cosí facendo avvertiamo la privazione. Viceversa, nel caso di ciò che possediamo dovremmo pensare spesso: E se lo perdessi?.

Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame.

Ninguém é realmente digno de inveja, e tantos são dignos de lástima!

But if all wishes were fulfilled as soon as they arose, how would men occupy their lives? what would they do with their time? If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

Fulfillment never satisfies, nothing is so fatal to an ideal than its realization.

The wise man does not seek pleasure but freedom from care and pain.