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The moment we go looking for anything outside of ourselves, i.e., when we make our happiness contingent on another, we have a serious problem. All of the emotions and feelings that we have come from within―we have those natural capacities ourselves. If we did not have an appetite to begin with, food would hold no appeal. It does not make us hungry; it merely stimulates that hunger inside of us. The same is true of all virtues and vices. Everything we need to gratify us can be found within, if only we venture to look and not pay heed to the bright and blinding lights that have enthralled most of this world.

The moral? To recognize that our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes, and emotional betrayals, and to avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time, and the weather.

The more we veer away from our true nature, the more unhappy we feel. When we align with our better self, we feel happy and content again.

...the morning with the whole day waiting, full of promise, the night of quiet, of no expectations, of rest. And the certainty of home, the one I live in, and the one that lives in me.

The most valuable things you have money cannot buy.

The one who finds contentment is truly rich.

The opposite of seeking is not finding, but being.

The poorest people you meet are the discontent.

The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.

There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion.

There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.

There is no stupid question. Stupid people don't ask questions.

The rival ideologies of the left and right are both pining for the 50s. The only difference is that liberals want to work there, while conservatives want to go home there.

The root of corruption is lack of contentment.

The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

The pursuit of peace and happiness does not require status, power, possession or event diligent spiritual practice. It simply require unquestioning faith in whatever god or forces you believe control your destiny. And the ability to hold unconditional, indiscriminate love within your heart.

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.

...there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

There's Nothing To Hide When Your Soul Is Not Guilty....

There was a man with tongue of wood Who essayed to sing, And in truth it was lamentable. But there was one who heard The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood And knew what the man Wished to sing, And with that the singer was content.

There was a form of contentment in doing what she could and not worrying about the rest.

There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give out, rather than impressed by external objects.

The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly. Chuang Tzu

The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content - and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect

The truth is, new furniture or a better house will never really satisfy - they will just set new, higher standards for what is acceptable to us for our comfort and contentment. When you take care of what you have and find joy right where you are, you set the right tone and expectations for contentment in all circumstances moving forward. Whether things get better or worse, our standard will be to love what we have and be grateful for it (even when we might not like it).

The secret to happiness: resist nothing and allow everything. The secret to contentment: revere everything. The secret to enlightenment: there is no secret.

The Vedanta Sutras is the most important and significant source for the study of Vedanta. It is an exposition of the doctrine of knowledge and therefore it is also called Brahma sutra or Bramin is the caste in this world who studies Vedatans and Brahma is the absolute white light as well. The Shiva is the God of the entire universe. Mother is the supreme everywhere in the entire universe and the God or Lord Sun with fortune is the very much supreme too.

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.

The world owes you nothing because the universe has already given you everything.

Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing.

The secret to longevity lies in action—engaging in the activities that make your body supple, your mind clear, and your spirit content.

The two women sat by the fire, tilting their glasses and drinking in small peaceful sips. The lamplight shone upon the tidy room and the polished table, lighting topaz in the dandelion wine, spilling pools of crimson through the flanks of the bottle of plum gin. It shone on the contented drinkers, and threw their large, close-at-hand shadows upon the wall. When Mrs Leak smoothed her apron the shadow solemnified the gesture as though she were moulding an universe. Laura's nose and chin were defined as sharply as the peaks peaks on a holly leaf.

This book is not the memoir of a contented man. It's not the poignant reflections of a white-haired guru who has finally figured out the secret to contentment. It's more like sweaty, bloody, hastily scribbled notes from a battlefield. I'm still struggling to escape the sinister fingers on this conspiracy. I'm still waging war against the discontentment that rages in my life. I can see contentment in the distance, like a hazy oasis, but I have to pick my way through a minefield to get there. I'm not the contented man God wants me to be, but I'm fighting to get there. I'm writing this book the hope that you'll join me in the fight.

Those who think life is a competition become corrupt.

Thus it looks in the last analysis as if the soul which serves God in spirit and in truth enjoys a very unusual kind of peace: not the satisfying inward rest which we would have expected, nor the outward rest of having everything in order and nothing left out, but a rest which consists in contentment at having sacrificed both to the will of God.

Time after time, they brought each other to new heights of ecstasy, until finally, they lay spent in each others arms in the quiet peace and contentment that only lovers know.

Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

To be content is to count your blessings.

To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment.

To be knowledgeable means to be in love with life. You can be loveable only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty; you want to bring knowledge to the world, a little philosophy to it, a little art to it. Friendship or relationships is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where every time is happiness or contentment, any knowledge, where one simply enjoys giving.

...those who deny or oppose these so pleasant delights (of virtue), do so only from jealousy, you may be sure, from the barbarous pleasure of making others as guilty and unhappy as they are. They are blind and would like everyone to be the same, they are mistaken, and would like everyone else to be mistaken; but if you could see into the depths of their hearts you would find only sorrow and repentance; all these apostles of crime are only evil and desperate people; you would not find a sincere person among them who would not admit, if he were truthful, that their poisonous words or dangerous writings had not been guided only by their passions. And what man in fact can say in cold blood that the bases of morality can be shaken without risk? What being would dare maintain that doing good and desiring good are not essentially the aim of mankind? And how can a man who will do only evil expect to be happy in a society whose strongest concern is the perpetual increase of good? But will not this apologist of crime not shudder himself when he had uprooted from all hearts the only thing which could lead to his conversion? What will stop his servants ruining him, if they have ceased to be virtuous?

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.

To live without your want is the grace of contentment.

To put human-made objects in their proper place as tools, we must learn the art of contentment.

Vedanta is the oldest book in the Universe and specially on earth, one of the six systems darshans of ancient philosophy or knowledge. The term Vedanta means in Sanskrit the “conclusion” (anta) of the Vedas, the earliest sacred literature of ancient world. It applies to the Upanishads, which were elaborations of the Vedas, and to the universities that arose out of the study (mimamsa) of the Upanishads. Thus, Vedanta is also referred to as Vedanta Mimamsa (Reflection on Vedanta), Uttara Mimamsa (Reflection on the Latter Part of the Vedas), and Brahma Mimamsa (Reflection on Brahman).The Vedanta knowledge, as it is supremely have been various understandings, and intellect mind we have been progressive, beginning with the dualistic or Dvaita and expanding with the non-dualistic and dualistic world. The word Vedanta literally means the knowledge of the knowledge. The God Shiva, the lord Sun and the divine mother and the fortune or Brahma are the main deep energies in the world. The Vedas being the scriptures of the ancient knowledge. Now a day in all parts of the world Vedas are meant only the true absolute knowledge and supreme hymns and rituals of the Vedas are absolutely perfect.

Visionic reality is the human divine individual, the creation, seener of life, the supreme of spiritual truth, supreme destiny with light, the vision of life, supreme mother existence, and knowledge of faiths. Spiritual contentment which ensures freedom of worship, spiritual thoughts and actions which calls for serving all, and seeing the divine presence in the body is the key to spirituality.

Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.