“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.” MenEndsRunningTalentSafetyCompromisePerceiveReasonableContentmentStabilityProgressionSettlement Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being” IfsWellsEndsAgeChallengesDevelopmentComfortableWell BeingContentmentAdverse Book:The Culture of Contentment Source: The Culture of Contentment
“There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.” MindEndsActionGoalDifferencesResultsOughtFinalsSatisfactionSupremeContentmentOur ActionsPossessing Author:Rene Descartes