Quotes About Contentment

But although the world was happy, some savour had gone out of life, since safety had been preferred to adventure.

A man cannot possibly be at peace with others until he has learned to be at peace with himself.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Certain things are indispensable to the happiness of most men, but these are simple things: food and shelter, health, love, successful work and the respect of one's own herd.

what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?

You can get away from envy by enjoying the pleasures that come your way, by doing the work that you have to do, and by avoiding comparisons with those whom you imagine, perhaps quite falsely, to be more fortunate than yourself.

J'estime que dans toutes les définitions de la vie bienheureuse , il faut faire entrer un instinct d'animal , sans quoi la vie devient fade et sans intérêt

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern

It is not good for men to get all that they wish to get." One may say that Heraclitus values power obtained through self-mastery, and despises the passions that distract men from their central ambitions.

Popular Cynicism did not teach abstinence from the good things of this world, but only a certain indifference to them.

Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

The only cure [for envy] in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is itself a terrible obstacle to happiness

be indifferent to the goods that fortune has to bestow, and you will be emancipated from fear.

While animals are content with existence and reproduction, men desire also to expand, and their desires in this respect are limited only by what imagination suggests as possible.

El animal humano, igual que los demás, está adaptado a cierto grado de lucha por la vida, y cuando su gran riqueza permite a un Homo sapiens satisfacer sin esfuerzo todos sus caprichos, la mera ausencia de esfuerzo le quita a su vida un ingrediente imprescindible de la felicidad.

No sientas envidia de la felicidad de los que viven en el paraíso de los necios, pues sólo un necio pensará que eso es la felicidad.

La disciplina externa es el único camino a la felicidad para aquellos desdichados cuya absorción en sí mismos es tan profunda que no se puede curar de ningún otro modo.

Como dice Russell, «las personas que son desdichadas, como las que duermen mal, siempre se enorgullecen de ello». Este es el primer obstáculo a vencer si uno pretende intentar ser feliz, dejar de intentar a toda costa ser «interesante».

When one cannot satisfy one appetite, one satisfies another

To her all things are poignantly lacking — but she is incapable of desiring anything.

I always concluded that lonely or not it was still free from the curse of boredom.

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

Abbie Deal went happily about her work, one baby in her arms and the other at her skirts, courage her lode-star and love her guide,—a song upon her lips and a lantern in her hand.

Lord, You know me. You know my natural personality is given to fear. You know all my insecurities. You know that I have a need to be loved and to feel significant and to feel affirmed. And Father, I'm not going to ask my family to do that for me today. They may or may not, and if they do, that's wonderful. But Father, You are my sole satisfaction, and I ask You to satisfy me this morning with Your unfailing love.