True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point.… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Be contented with what you already have. At the same time, strive for greater things. All your possessions are gifts from god.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Contentment is godlike. It is a quality that goes to the heart of true manliness—that sets a man above the world and… — Darrin Patrick Copy Share Image
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Pray Meditate Be aware.Stay awake Bow Practise yoga Feel Chant and sing Breathe and smile Relax.Enjoy.Laugh.Play Create.Envision Let Go/Forgive.Accept Walk.Exercise.Move Work.Serve.Contribute Listen/Learn.Enquire… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Being happy is what YOU MAKE happen, with your decisions, morals, actions towards others, a relationship, is just the cherry on top.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I hate and have always hated the word therapist. I detest the idea that my work, if it is work at all,… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
Most disciplines invite us to more mindfulness, and more contentment. Not by consuming more externally, but by harvesting more from within, and… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or… — Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha Copy Share Image
Happiness is valuing what you have, and enjoying the people, places, objects and events in your life for what they are. It's… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure… — Moffat Machingura Copy Share Image
“I think it's contentment. Where you have everything you ever wanted, all together in one place. It's quieter than excitement, but, [...]… — Heather Anastasiu Copy Share Image
“Why is it people will complain, when they have an open door, where they can walk out to and gaze the stars;… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Contentment is a very underrated feeling, but you only learn that as you get older, and with it comes regret that it… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjust, false, and presumptuous;… — François Fénelon Copy Share Image
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