#contentment

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#happiness #inspirational #life #inspirational

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#faith #fear #god #greatness #honour

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. ↗

— Socrates

#equality

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace. ↗

— Criss Jami

#content #contentment #eating #enjoyment #faith

There's a way, a way way too long but reachable, not for everyone a way but possible... Go and don't lose your way! ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#courage-in-life #courage-to-be-oneself #fulfillment #life-contentment-happy #life-path

Happiness is seeing blessings in disguise, beauty under camouflage, and love amid conflict. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#blessings #contentment #happiness #joy #love

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#happiness #attitude

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment. ↗

— George R. Gissing

#coin #contentment #discontent #life #money

If you walk in joy, happiness is close behind. ↗

— Todd Stocker

#happiness #happy #joy #joyful #attitude