philosophy of contentment Quotes

So even these stages of progression, whether it's your career or whatever, you get somewhere, but then it always brings a new host of issues that are relative dissatisfactions to a certain degree. I think it was a great philosopher who once said, "Mo' money, mo' problems."

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.