Quotes About Contentment

Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.

This is man, who, if he can remember ten golden moments of joy and happiness out of all his years, ten moments unmarked by care, unseamed by aches or itches, has power to lift himself with his expiring breath and say: I have lived upon this earth and known glory!

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Baseball's a dull game, really; that's the reason that it is so good. We do not love the game so much as we love the sprawl and drowse and shirt-sleeved apathy of it.)

Was it in woman's nature to be content with all that a man could give her, and not forever want what was not his to give?

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder…

Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulders...

Every man looks upon his wood pile with a sort of affection.

I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meager life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich in inward.

I've got my girl and my guitar, and for me that's enough.

La gente era agradable de ver, sana y elegante, pero impaciente: parecían no estar satisfechos nunca.

Peace never bragged. If you didn't look for it, it wasn't there.

For just as happiness is more than the absence of sadness, so peace is infinitely more than the absence of war.

In the end he wore me down. Always asking. And the answer I give him is still the only one I have. What do I want? Peace. And it actually shut him up. He didn't niggle me about it. It was like he got it straight off. I don't just want quiet, neither. I want peace.

Peace, that's all I'm after.

Happiness is not our goal. The achievement of happiness deflects us from our true destiny which is the utter realization of self.

That's right... I never felt a sense of superiority because I could see spirits. And I never once thought that I could make a living or help someone with it. I just longed for a life where I couldn't see them. And I finally got what I always wanted.

If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't happiness, then what is?

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world; someone to love, something to do and something to hope for.

My life is a very simple life thank you