Tag: contentment
To be content with little is hard…
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach … Haven’t you noticed a person with a low-end or mid-end mobile phone is usually satisfied and is content for months or even years; however, someone with a high-end phone is constantly switching phones. Similarly, someone living in a…
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase…
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.– C.P. Snow … It might as well be that Chris Gardner was finally happy with the job and founding of his own multi-million dollar brokerage firm; however, stories like these are a rarity. It needs a person who…
Ask yourself whether you are happy…
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.— John Stuart Mill … Wikipedia defines happiness as “a state of mind or feeling characterised by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure or joy.” Each of these concepts is hard to measure or quantify to provide a meaningful quantity to happiness. Consequently, when one asks…