344 quotes found
“Whenever you look in front and see a lot of people ahead of you, take time to look at the long queue behind you. Let us live a life of contentment.”
“In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.”
“Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.”
“The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment. Different schoo...”
“He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.”
“That was bliss. Being cared for. Wanted. Feeling so necessary to someones existence that there was no place for the loneliness inside her.”
“All the arguing in the world won't change the mind of the Umpire.”
“Give me a bottle of hard cider, a bowl of Peterson Irish Oak in my Neerup pipe, and please, above all, give my Henry David Thoreaus Wild Apples. Do that and you will see a man contented.”
“It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.”
“One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from look...”
“Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.”
“Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.”
“There are enough resources in the world for everyone.”
“The one who finds contentment is truly rich.”
“The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.”
“My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrumwhat I called emotional sea levelis nothappiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds o...”
“The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.”
“I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. ...”
“Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.”
“I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.”
