Contentum Quotes & Sayings

There's major depression, and then there's clinical depression. Major depression is what makes you jump off a bridge. I have clinical depression. I jump out of first story windows. It's the psychological equivalent of lying on a bed of rubber nails. — Doug Westberg

Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all. — Michael Ende

Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past. — Debasish Mridha

Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world. — Duane Elgin

In our social world we have only a thin layer of topsoil-tolerance-for people and cultures that are different from our own. When times get hard, there is nothing left to
nourish us, and we snarl over limited profits or limited resources. It seems clear that the work of spiritual regeneration has to begin now.
These — Gary Holthaus

Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland. — Walt Disney

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
[Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?] — Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger

The optimal choice that you can make in any situation is to grow spiritually. That means intending to create harmony, sharing, cooperation and reverence for life ... There is wisdom in each of your choices because each of them creates consequences that you mwill experience and if you choose, learn from. — Gary Zukav

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Part of me knows that prayer is essential; another part of me would rather turn on the TV and check out. And that whole bit about being long-suffering-no way. Part of me wants to just get drunk. — John Eldredge