Happiness Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Content Weariness Contraction Mind Happiness Mind Mind Content Psychology Sign Contraction Weariness
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the… — William Walker Atkinson Copy Share Image
It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary and not only necessary but… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant 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
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
