Quotes About Contentment

Who has no house now will not build him one.

And to this day I wish I had lingered a week or so.... But we stupid mortals, or most of us, are always in haste to reach somewhere else, forgetting that the zest is in the journey and not in the destination.

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for anybody's damn sermon,

You will please him more readily if you live within the limits proper to you, and do not set your sights at things beyond you (Sir. 3:22).

Not to complain about being poor in actual fact reveals true poverty of spirit

One can possess joy in a prison cell as well as in a palace. The

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

To fill the hour-that is happiness.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Si vais a la felicidad llevad sombrilla.

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

Real peace is happiness. Pleasures do not form happiness.

If a person overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his whole life will be happy. To be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, free of desires and without hate, is beautiful in a seeker.

If it is asked whether the wise man derives any benefit from the discharge of domestic duties, it may be answered that, as he has already attained the state of complete satisfaction which is the sum total of all benefits and the highest good of all, he does not stand to gain anything more by discharging family duties.

There is a state beyond our efforts or effortlessness. Until it is realised effort is necessary. After tasting such Bliss, even once, one will repeatedly try to regain it. Having once experienced the Bliss of Peace no one would like to be out of it or engaged himself otherwise.

La soledad está en la mente de un hombre. Uno puede estar en el centro del mundo y sin embargo mantener una perfecta serenidad; una persona así siempre está en soledad. Otro puede estar en el bosque, y aún así, ser incapaz de controlar su mente. Entonces no se puede decir que esté en soledad. La soledad es un actitud del ánimo; un hombre apegado a las cosas de la vida no puede alcanzar la soledad, no importa dónde esté. Un hombre desapegado está siempre en soledad.

De qué sirve atribuir a los sucesos de la vida la causa de la desdicha que está realmente dentro de ti? ¿Qué felicidad puedes obtener de las cosas que te son ajenas? Y cuando la obtengas, ¿cuánto durará?