All Quotes By Tag: Contentment
“Hope combined with action is the only thing that will bring you contentment.”
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“It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we’d like to be. That’s not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you’ve accomplished, rather than thinking of what’s left to be done (p. 159).”
“If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.”
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“Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.”
“Contentment is quite a different thing from pleasure.”
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“Besides, beyond question, it takes a certain degree of brainlessness to remain permanently contented with oneself and with everything.”
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“Some days just being is enough.”
“All good things must come to an end. That’s why they’re called good things — otherwise they’re just… ordinary.”
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“How you feel about home after holiday says a lot about home.”
“Wisdom and contentment are the same thing.”
“It is impossible for your reasons to be unhappy to exceed those to be happy.”
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“Although the windblows terribly here,the moonlight also leaksbetween the roof planksof this ruined house.”
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“There in bed, happiness comes over me. Not like something that belongs to me, but like a wheel of fire rolling through the room and the world.”
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“Happiness” alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.”
“When you say you are in pursuit of happiness, what you essentially mean is that you are expecting your environment to always act in ways that would elicit an emotion of happiness in your heart. It is exactly as absurd as it sounds.”
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