Quotes About Contentment

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

what you don't know, you don't miss

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort.

If those who seek happiness would stop one little minute and think, they would see that the delights they already experience are as countless as the grasses at their feet, or the dewdrops sparkling upon the morning flowers.

The man who is satisfied with mediocrity needs but few clothes. It may be true, as a well known poet has said, that "clothes do not make the man," but no one can deny the fact that good clothes go a very long way toward giving him a favorable start.

Forced idleness is far worse than forced labor. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control and strength of will and content and a hundred other virtues which the idle will never know.

Kill the habit of worry, in all its forms, by reaching a general, blanket decision that nothing which life has to offer is worth the price of worry.

Success in life, no matter what one may call success, is very largely a matter of adaptation to environment in such a manner that there is harmony between the individual and his environment. The palace of a king becomes as a hovel of a peasant if harmony does not abound within its walls. Conversely stated, the hut of a peasant may be made to yield more happiness than that of the mansion of the rich man, if harmony obtains in the former and not in the latter.

I now pray, not for more of this world's goods and greater blessings, but to be worthy of that which I already have.

Without money, one must take what one is offered, and be glad to get it.

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

NO MAN IS HAPPY OR COMPLETE WITHOUT THE MODIFYING INFLUENCE OF THE RIGHT WOMAN.

To be successful, you must find peace of mind, acquire the material needs of life, and above all, attain happiness.

The watchword of the future will be HUMAN HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT, and when this state of mind shall have been attained, the production will take care of itself, more effectively than anything that has ever been accomplished where men did not, and could not mix FAITH and individual interest with their labor.

The little ragged newsboy on the street stands, with wide-open mouth, and envies the business man as he alights from his automobile at the curb and starts into his office. "How happy I would be," the newsboy says to himself, "if I owned a Lizzie." And, the business man seated at his desk inside, thinks how happy he would be if he could add another million dollars to his already overswollen bank roll.

I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.

You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive.