Quotes About Contentment

Poverty is no sin.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

People always think that success will bring happiness, that money will bring happiness. Success does not breed happiness. Positive energy breeds happiness and happiness breeds success.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

In the words of Chinese Zen master Layman P'ang (c. 740–808 A.D.): My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict. Who cares about wealth and honor? Even the poorest thing shines. My miraculous power and spiritual activity: drawing water and carrying wood.

We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that.

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I'm a happy man.

Then they died. But they died as men who have finished their work and lie down quietly, secure in their honor.

One of them went to get the thing for which he had cried out. When they brought it, Ish was delighted, and now they laughed at him as if he really were a child, good-naturedly. Ish did not mind. He had what he wanted. It was a scarlet flower—a geranium, which had adapted itself to the new life and lived through these years. It was not the flower but the color, Ish realized, that had given him that sudden pang and made him cry out.

The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her. "It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." He gave a shrug. "They never are.

How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?" "In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty," he replied.

I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, for this wide world has no greater wonder.

I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels.

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright.

Never ask a baker what went into a pie. Just eat.

We'll both walk away smiling, in harmonious equipoise.

A fat man always sits comfortably, I am thinking, for he takes his pillow with him wherever he goes.