Current location - Quotes Website - Excellent quotations - Selected 65 famous sayings about contentment
Selected 65 famous sayings about contentment

1. As long as a man is flattered by someone to satisfy his pride and desires, he is easily deceived; and artists who are full of fantasy are even more easily deceived. ?French thinker and writer Romain Rolland

2. True humility is satisfaction. ?Swiss philosopher Amir

3. Instinct needs can be satisfied and are easy to achieve. It is precisely those other needs that make us restless. ?Ancient Roman strategist and philosopher Seneca

4. Conquer your anger with a gentle and generous heart, and suppress hatred with humility. ? Use frank and true feelings to stop unfair deception, and use a meek and contented heart to eliminate greed. ?Indian traditional religion "Jain Classics"

5. People can only be satisfied through constant pursuit. Like love, the true spirit of poetry, philosophy, and science is precisely to constantly pursue and always stand at the starting line. ?Professor, philosopher, writer, litterateur Zhao Xinshan

6. Thinking about actions instead of creeds will help meet our greatest needs. ?19th century American romantic poet Longfellow

7. Happiness belongs to satisfied people. ?Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle

8. Love is nothing more than a desire to enjoy greed and never be satisfied. ?French late Renaissance thinker Montaigne

9. Fame can also be a huge obstacle: if we pursue it, we must devote ourselves to such a path? Try to satisfy people's imagination and avoid what they hate. , Do what you like. ?The Dutch philosopher Spinoza

10. Be quiet and peaceful, with few selfish desires. Open and free from worries, silent and without thoughts. ?Ji Kang

11. Dedicate yourself to your destiny without losing it. Be content with what you have and never want to think outside of it. ?Kuang Zhouyi

12. Yes, there are not only flowers and plants in the garden of the poor, but also kindness and contentment, tranquility and tired joy. ?Mar Hoyt

13. Compared with nature, history is more harsh and cruel to human emotions. Nature requires people to be content only with their natural instincts, while history forces people to reason. ?Former Soviet writer Gorky

14. Dissatisfaction is an upward wheel. ?Chinese modern writer and political critic Lu Xun

15. The so-called happy people are those who only remember the satisfaction in their lives; while the so-called unhappy people only remember the opposite. ?Japanese poet Ogihara Sakutaro

16. Fulfillment is satisfaction, and satisfaction is happiness. ?Chinese essayist Liang Qiushi

17. The so-called love can satisfy everything, ?only for lovers: as for couples, in addition to the sky as the roof and the green carpet, they also need something more . ?French writer Balzac

18. All investigations guided by the laws of nature ultimately aim at satisfying the needs of the stomach. ?Atnaos

19. Luxury will destroy people's spiritual purity, because unfortunately, the more you get, the more greedy you become, and you always feel that you cannot satisfy yourself. ?French painter Ingres

20. Will is free. When a person realizes his will, it is equivalent to realizing himself, and this self-realization is the greatest satisfaction for individuals. . ?German psychiatrist Fromm

21. Human needs develop together with the means to satisfy them, and develop by virtue of those means. ?German philosopher Marx

22. Vanity can hardly be said to be a vice, but all vices revolve around vanity and are nothing but means to satisfy vanity. ?French philosopher Bergson's "Laughter"

23. Friendship is often formed by a common interest that is easier to realize for two people than for one person. This kind of friendship can only be achieved when mutual satisfaction is achieved. Relationships are pure. ?Swedish novelist and poet Strindberg

24. Intelligence is suitable for everything, but it cannot satisfy everything. ?Swiss philosopher Amir

25. The noblest heart has the noblest satisfaction. ?Dutch philosopher Spinoza

26. The extent to which theory is practiced in a country depends on the extent to which the theory meets the needs of the country. ?German philosopher Marx

27. The mother was pregnant for ten months, the baby fell to the ground, and she worked hard to raise it. All the pain and suffering were compensated and received in the child's first "Mother" sound. Satisfied. ?The martial arts novelist Gu Long's "Angry Sword and Wild Flowers"

28. Will? This is not simply desire and the satisfaction of desire, but also desire and restraint, desire and giving up. If your child is trained only to fulfill his own wishes, he will not have the greatest will. ?Former Soviet educator and writer Makarenko

29. Be content but not greedy, know restraint but not be lewd. ?The reclusive poet Lin Bu of the Northern Song Dynasty

30. The relationship between acquaintance and friendship is just like flirting to love? Exciting, but not satisfying. ?Alec Waugh

31. If a person is about to remain content and mediocre forever without any obstacles, then he will be stupid and confused, as contented as a cow.

?Brown

32. No disaster is greater than not being satisfied, and no fault is greater than desire. Therefore, contentment is always enough. ?"Laozi"

33. When we dare to do evil to satisfy our humble expectations, we lose our nature and are no longer ourselves. ?English Renaissance playwright and poet Shakespeare

34. I learned the way to find happiness: limit your desires instead of trying to satisfy them. ?British poet Milton

35. If you are a contented person, where can you live? ?Yelu Chucai, Minister of the Mongolian Empire

36. Happiness has its dual nature: on the one hand, it lies in the blessing of the soul and good fortune when the time comes. On the other hand, it is also the most practical aspect, which is to live your daily life contentedly and happily. Live, that is to say, with a clear head and without doing stupid things. ?Fontana

37. I believe that self-satisfaction is to feel that every penny of your salary is earned with your own blood and sweat. ?American advertising master Leo Burnett

38. People who have not become giants do not need to be satisfied with being a dwarf. ?Ernest? Bullard

39. People are never satisfied. ?This is one of the greatest talents that man possesses, and it is this ability that makes man superior to animals who are content with what they have. ?American writer Steinbeck

40. The biggest obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness. ?Fontenelle

41. Despicable and arrogant motives will only satisfy the greed of fools, warriors, human invaders and plunderers. People should give up such motives and do not let these tempting Drinks will numb those pretentious people again! ?French thinker Saint-Simon

42. Education is the habit of being satisfied from the best things and knowing why. ?Dutch linguist Van Dijk

43. I learned to practice what I call "constructive dissatisfaction." ?American advertising master Leo Burnett

44. Maybe people are like this. They don’t know how to appreciate things when they have them, and they pursue things when they don’t have them. ?Helen. Keller

45. If wealth, empire and power are not more powerful means to satisfy desires, what are they? ?British playwright William Congreve

46. Our sales representatives are sharp-sighted and constantly find out the new needs of customers and pass the news on to researchers. Therefore, researchers can meet customer needs and provide new products or businesses. ?Levius?Lear

47. Once love is satisfied, the charm of others will be gone. ?French writer Corneille

48. The enemy of learning is one's own satisfaction. If you want to study something seriously, you must start from not being complacent. We should adopt this attitude toward ourselves, "never tired of learning", and toward others, "never tired of teaching". ?Mao Zedong

49. Before we understand what life is, we have consumed half of it. ?Herbert

50. Those who are greedy will hate jade when they share gold; they will not be marquised when they are enfeoffed, and the powerful will beg for themselves. For those who are content, quinoa soup is better than ointment, cloth robes are warmer than foxes and raccoon dogs, and the people are not allowed to let the princes go. ?Hong Yingming, Ming Dynasty Taoist Hong Zicheng

51. Being lazy to think, unwilling to delve into and understand deeply, being complacent or satisfied with trivial knowledge are all causes of intellectual poverty. This poverty is often described in one word: stupidity. ?Former Soviet writer Gorky

52. People like to satisfy themselves with extreme prejudice and unlimited freedom. This is the essence of their thinking. ?British Renaissance writer and philosopher Bacon

53. There is no cheaper entertainment or more lasting satisfaction than reading. ?Montaiju

54. ** satisfies, or once satisfied, people's aggressive instincts, but it also satisfies people's desires for plunder, destruction, cruel discipline and autocratic power. ?Cha? Elliott

55. Voluntary poverty is better than uncertain glitz; if a person who is extravagant and greedy is greedy, he will be much more unfortunate than the poorest and contented person. ?English Renaissance playwright and poet Shakespeare

56. Only under new social conditions can labor be transformed from a heavy burden into a relaxed and pleasant satisfaction of physiological requirements. ?Russian writer Chernyshevsky

57. You must know that all the good things, rationality, all satisfaction, and all happy feelings that people have discovered, or that God and nature only give to human beings, It's all in three words: health, peace and competence. ?Austrian philosopher Karl Popper

58. The law cannot be convenient for everyone. If it benefits all and most people, we should be satisfied. ?Ancient Roman historian Livy

59. If a person’s desire is only to pursue money or power, he will never be satisfied. If he is not satisfied, he will not be happy. ?**Writer Bo Yang

60. For the greatest people and the most dissatisfied people, their talents are the most severe spurs. ?German writer Thomas "Heavy Moments"

61. Money is a useful thing, but it will only bring you happiness when you feel satisfied. Otherwise, it will not only give you There is nothing positive about you other than worry and jealousy.

?**Poetess Xi Murong

62. Happiness has its dual nature: on the one hand, it lies in the blessing of the soul and good fortune in good times. On the other hand, it is also the most practical aspect, which is to spend daily life contentedly and happily. , which means to have a clear mind and not do stupid things. ?German writer Fontana

63. If there is no sufficient reason to refuse a child's request, it should be satisfied; if there is a reason not to agree to such a request, then he should not be allowed to cheat. Once you say no, don't change. ?German philosopher and astronomer Kant

64. Holding a grand funeral is not so much to mourn the deceased as to satisfy the vanity of the living. ?French writer La Rochefoucauld

65. We speak in front of people who are as vain as us, and the degree to which their vanity is tortured is exactly the same as the degree to which our vanity is satisfied.

?French thinker and jurist Montesquieu