Contentment

Watched "Wanted" in the cinema few days ago. Really

admired and inspired by the level of contentment in the

role of Angelina Jolie as "The Fox". I'm wondering

whether a man can has that level of contentment in

reality.

There's a saying, "if you can't do what you like, like

what you do" or "if you can't have what you like, like

what you have". However, I'm sure it has nothing to do

with "Peopel who can't do, teach".

Sometimes, we like what you do, we all satisfied with

what we have, but there others who don't like it for us.

We might can just ignore it and have the pleasures of

contentment with us, but if that other people are people

who are very significant to us, it will affect us

emotionally. What if you father don't like what you do?

What if your mother-in-law don't like your car? What if

your best friend hate your smell... and the list goes

on... the goes your contentment.

Is it really necessary to have a contented life? I think we need some managable level of stress to make our life more interesting. Why we eat spicy food? It simple tasted better, right?

"how good is to do nothing as rest afterward". I heard a lot of people can't afford to have that. But for some people that have that feel bored to death.

The conclusion is "tepuk dada, tanya selera". Decide what you want for your life and go for it at all cost.

Some Quotes:

A contented heart is an even sea in the midst of all

storms.
- Anonymous

Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful,

faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little, or much.

It is to take the cup of Providence, and call upon the

name of the Lord. What the cup contains is its contents.

To get all there is in the cup is the act and art of

contentment. Not to drink because one has but half a cup,

or because one does not like its flavor, or because some

one else has silver to one's own glass, is to lose the

contents; and that is the penalty, if not the meaning of

discontent. No one is discontented who employs and enjoys

to the utmost what he has. It is high philosophy to say,

we can have just what we like, if we like what we have;

but this much at least can be done, and this is

contentment,--to have the most and best in life, by

making the most and best of what we have.
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Contentment is a pearl of great price and whoever

procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes

a wine and a happy purchase.
- John Balguy

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to

seek it elsewhere.
- Hosea Ballou

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the

contentment of a loving soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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Don da Pantaier's