Quotes About Contentment

Taiki was watching the kings talk, feeling the kind of happiness that can only come after a long sorrow.

You don't have to want things outside you to fill up the gaps inside you. You don't leave bits of you hanging around on objects in shop-windows, in catalogues or on advertising hoardings. Wherever you go you take your whole self with you, you don't leave bits lying around to get stamped on, you're all of a piece

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

There is nothing that I can do particularly well. I do what I do because it came my way. I really never had a chance of doing anything else.' And this apology too I accept as conclusive. It is quite true that most people can do nothing well. If so, it matters very little what career they choose, and there is really nothing more to say about it. It is a conclusive reply, but hardly one likely to be made by a man with any pride; and I may assume that none of us would be content with it.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

God is asking for that abandonment of man to Himself which says, "We pour all at Thy feet, and if Thou shouldst crown us, we would rejoice, but only that a crown was ours to cast at the feet of Christ." When men reach that point, greed has gone out of their service.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Simcha, Rabbi Tatz said, is "the experience of the soul that comes when you are doing what you should be doing.

Minimalism allows you to live without fear, worry, guilt, or depression. You have the mindset to experience real freedom when you live a minimalist lifestyle.

I do believe you would be perfectly happy shut up in your study with your rolls of manuscript all your life, without seeing another human being save a servant to bring you in bread and fruit and water twice a day.

So that there is enough to keep life together, it matters little what it is.

But there was nothing except this languid contentment of satisfied desire, as if the rules had changed or the world wasn't the same anymore.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

I've had enough of chasing after poetry; I believe that poetry lies at one's very door or perhaps in one's very bed. I'm still a man on the run, but I shall try to stop and wait.

Me sentía vivir en ella, y ella vivía solo para mí. Su sonrisa me llenaba de una beatitud infinita; la ondulación de su voz, tan dulce y, sin embargo, tan firmemente timbrada, me hacía vibrar de alegría y de amor.