Quotes About Contentment

True wisdom would be the ability to live without this scenery, to be the same person even at the bottom of a well. But that, it has to be said, is not so easy.

The only shadow on my happiness is when I tell myself sometimes that as it's all going well, it can't last, that one day things won't be so good.

happiness is a different thing altogether. If you try to achieve it, you have every chance of failing. And besides, how would you ever know that you'd achieved it? Of course one can't blame people, especially unhappy people, for wanting to be happier and setting themselves goals in order to try to escape from their unhappiness.

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last.

Did the squirrel realize how lucky he was to be there? Or on the contrary did he spend his life wondering whether he might not be better off somewhere else, or feeling that he didn't have the life he deserved? In the end, it depended on the comparisons the squirrel was able to make

Lesson no. 1: Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

The old monk said, 'The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!' And

by adding together these three differences - between what we have and what we'd like to have, what we have now and the best of what we've had in the past, and what we have and what other people have - you get an average difference which is closely related to happiness. The smaller the difference, the happier we are.

And besides, you can feel useful to others without necessarily expecting gratitude and still be happy.

Happiness is knowing how to celebrate

Oh thrice and four times happy those who plant cabbages!

Bonheur: faire ce que l'on veut et vouloir ce que l'on fait

Saracen had finished his barley and was happily chewing at the corner of a sheet that had been spread across a hedge to dry. He had once discovered a tablecloth, and ever since had been optimistic about the effects of dragging cloths off the top of things.

I don't think about "being happy" unless I'm with you, and then I never am. Humans are never happy.

Acepta la vida tal como es, no quieras que sea otra cosa. Y no esperes grandes acontecimientos. Piensa que la existencia cotidiana es tu verdadera escuela; el resto son actividades extraescolares.

He sido una tonta. Estaba tan empeñada en buscar a lo lejos que había olvidado que la felicidad puede estar muy cerca.

Voljeti ono što jest. Nema druge tajne.«

Los budistas tienen una fórmula para la felicidad que va en sentido contrario: FELICIDAD = REALIDAD – DESEOS

Es decir, si eres feliz con lo que tienes en tu vida y no deseas nada que no poseas ahora mismo, serás más feliz que alguien que tiene mucho más que tú, pero sigue deseando cosas que no posee.

encuentra la felicidad en lo que ya tiene, mientras que el niño la busca en lo que le falta. ¿Cómo elegir tu camino entre tantas opciones?

prihvati život takav kakav jest, nemoj željeti da on bude nešto drugo. I ne o?ekuj velike doga?aje. Pomisli kako je svakodnevna egzistencija tvoja prava škola; ostalo su izvanškolske aktivnosti.

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.