While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.


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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
HASIDIC PROVERB
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
BARBARA JORDAN
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
DOUG LARSON
Contentment comes from doing what is familiar. Happiness comes from the unfamiliar.
CHLOE THURLOW
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexp...
HERBERT SPENCER
Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires ca...
RVM
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Don't confuse contentment with happiness...
CHRIS WOODING
Happiness is a great contentment.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
For happiness don't pursue satisfaction, but pursue heroism.
AMIT KALANTRI
Pursue happiness, and happiness will find you.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.
TIM FARGO
Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness.
KISHORE BANSAL
Happiness is a reality of NOW, it not not something that you pursue in the future. Don't pursue happ...
FARSHAD ASL
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire...
SWAMI SIVANANDA
We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. . -...
ANCIENT PROVERB
Contentment is master key which opens gate of happiness.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment...
ANDREW WEIL
What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequ...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
We like to tell people, 'flee the water and hide from the wind,'
MAX MAYFIELD
We pursue that which retreats from us.
MARTIN HIEDEGGER
Achieving one's goal is the key to one's happiness and contentment.
JOEY LAWSIN
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ARZELL
I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur...
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GARY F EVANS...
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GARY F EVANS...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
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The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART
اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART
You hate cake doughnuts."
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E.LOCKHART
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E. LOCKHEART
There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART
He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART
Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART
Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Some pursue happiness - others create it.
HELEN ROWLAND
Some pursue happiness - others create it.
GEORGE SAND
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JOHN TILLOTSON
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, conten...
GUY FINLEY
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain...
GREGG EASTERBROOK
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
If you pursue happiness you never find it.
C.P. (CHARLES PERCY) SNOW
From labour health, from health contentment spring; Contentment opes the source of every joy.
JAMES BEATTIE
We're all golden sunflowers inside.
ALLEN GINSBERG
Rosa, what does freedom mean to you? It means to be content no matter where I am in life, to enjoy e...
ROSA M. BETANCES
The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him ...
JOHN NEWTON
One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher,
Although he was poor, did not want to be ric...
JANE TAYLOR
The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over ...
ALAN MOORE
When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES
The happiness of many marriages is founded on the old proverb: Suspicion doesn’t amount to convict...
MAX PALLENBERG
If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS...
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GARY F EVANS...
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GARY F EVANS...
Wishing on that far away star, how far removed we truly are.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON
We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO
Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA
Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN
People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE
We each can accomplish so much in this world. There is no room for boredom
ROXE
Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS...
You either have the feeling or you don’t.
DANIEL HANDLER
And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
KATE NASH
We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER
Sisi wote ni wanafunzi.
ENOCK MAREGESI
Created visions of experiencing unreality.
VICDO
The happiness of many marriages is founded on the old proverb: Suspicion doesn’t amount to convicti...
MAX PALLENBERG
Contentment - being happy while doing something - and complacency - being happy while doing nothing ...
ADAM KIRK SMITH
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C.P. (CHARLES PERCY) SNOW
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C P SNOW
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
CARRIE SNOW
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C. P. SNOW
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
CARRIE P. SNOW
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON
Mistakes and slips are a necessary evil part of our daily living. We learn through them all the time...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
We hope a better way will lead us to more happiness, while we would be more successful if we, first,...
LAURA TERESA MARQUEZ
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
SAM LEVENSON
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
SAMUEL LEVENSON
While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness i...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
From labor health, from health contentment springs.
MELODY BEATTIE
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find ...
CARRIE SNOW
Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst...
MARTHA WASHINGTON
Live the way you are prompted to do so by your inner soul. If you trust that you shall easily adapt ...
CHANDRABABU V.S.
He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the...
ETHEL POCHOCKI
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. / Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentmen...
JACK BRUCE
There is no 'Key to Happiness'...the door is always open.
ANONYMOUS
We will not actively pursue a US acquisition, and that is a significant change from where we were be...
LEONARD ASPER
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getti...
JOHN TEMPLETON
Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, wh...
GREG WEBSTER
Many people believe that happiness is the result of external situations in life. Unfortunately, that...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Self reflection and inner contentment is a much needed recipe for happiness at a both personal and r...
INAAM ABDULKARIM
One must strive for good life. Self contentment is the most potent arsenal to keep you in peace & ha...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then b...
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