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“I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.”

Knows Self Pleasure Awareness Taught Taste Self Awareness Hungry Contentment Better Life I Am Thankful

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.”

Purpose Values Pleasure Results Emotion Moral Resources Deeper Our Time Who We Are Contentment Humanist

Author:David Shi

“Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.”

Action Pleasure Ease Bliss Contentment

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays

“But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.”

“The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.”

Long Lying Suffering Pleasure Secret Comfort Chiefs Contentment Alas Trifles Great Ones Cultivating Lease Vex Small Pleasures

Author:Richard Sharp

“Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.”

Trying Problem Pleasure Contentment Craving

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar