Quotes About Contentment

There was the whole world; if she loved him like this, nothing could make them wretched; his love would be enough for her, - and for him hers was an empire.

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Sometimes

So much has been given to me. I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It were better far to sail forever in the night of blindness, with sense and feeling and mind, than to be thus content with the mere act of seeing. They have the sunset, the morning skies, the purple of distant hills, yet their souls voyage through this enchanted world with a barren stare.

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

My life is very simple, it is not worth being written into a biography, for that 'masala' is required.

I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're lucky, it's performed, and that's the end of the whole thing.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.