Quotes about Contentment, page 29

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about contentment

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about contentment

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Quote by Albert Camus about contentment

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about contentment

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Quote by Albert Camus about contentment

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about contentment

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about contentment

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Quote by Albert Camus about contentment

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about contentment

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Quote by Albert Camus about contentment

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Quote by Albert Camus about contentment

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Quote by Albert Camus about contentment

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Quote by Orson Scott about contentment

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Quote by Jane Austen about contentment

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Quote by Jane Austen about contentment

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Quote by Orson Scott about contentment

On a more practical level, what it takes to succeed is to be self-critical enough to learn from your errors, but confident enough (arrogant enough? ) to decide that what you've got is good enough to write and, having written, good enough to send...

Quote by Orson Scott about contentment

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Quote by Orson Scott about contentment

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Quote by Orson Scott about contentment

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Quote by Jane Austen about contentment