There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.
As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path. . . we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.
If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.
There are enough resources in the world for everyone.
There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.
There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.
When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.
There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.
The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.
Be satisfied with what you have.
It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.
Contentment. . . is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.
In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment.