Nima Keivani - Payam Noor University of Tehran

In this paper, the writer tries to give a new perspective of the concept of "Contentment" in the 3rd chapter of Sa'adi's masterpiece "Golestan" and simultaneously, a new analysis of the great poet's way of "Story- telling". It must be noticed though, the matter of the Linguistic and a little bit Formalistic view of the 2 major key words of the paper plus the 3rd tightly-related word "Happiness"; all philosophical somehow too

Satisfaction, Happiness, Contentment, Sa'di, Gulistan