Contentment Quote by Anonymous

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

— Saint Augustine

“The desire to possess is marked by an unceasingly growing, voracious element that manifests itself in the simple desire to have more, but also…

— Dorothee Soelle

“To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Ego is not a thing. When you believe ‘I am this…I am this…’; it is all ego. ‘I am Pure Soul’ is the only…

— Dada Bhagwan

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

— Oscar Wilde

The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you…

— Karen Kingston

So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption…

— Jack Kerouac

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas,…

— Voltaire

Egolessness is contentment.

— Anonymous

No material possession, no activity can remove, release, or change how you feel.The only person who can change what you feel is you.

— Senoraroy

“Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the world, in…

— Mark Doty

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

— Frank Sinatra