Contentment Quote by Gautama Buddha Download Open image “When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.” — Gautama Buddha ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contentment Desire Free Desire Freedom Know Serenity Knows Peace Serenity Serenity Freedom
“We fear what we don’t understand and find serenity in what we’re incapable of understanding..” — Scott Hildreth Copy Share Image
I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime. — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The sense of adventure and curiosity to see what the future holds is the other side of serenity. It, too, is a spiritual state… — Joan Timmerman Copy Share Image
The most wonderful taste of serenity is found by the love you create for yourself, and those around you. — Joe Torres Copy Share Image
Be careful to consider others' needs, not just your own. In this way you'll reach your objective with serenity. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I may not have everything I want in life but I have all I will ever need to make my life complete, my family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can find as much happiness at the bottom of the ladder of success as you can at the top, then you understand… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most of us are not content with our lot because we want a lot more — Marianette Carbito 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 through service. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were… — Jennie Rooney Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
