Quotes About Contentment

Like the ants that have nothing to do but dig all day, I have nothing to do but do what I want and be kind and remain nevertheless uninfluenced by imaginary judgments and pray for the light.

By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well.

In fact it didn't make a goddamn much of a difference to him. "I'm neutral," said he, laughing happily with a kind of an eager slaking leer, and Japhy yelled: "Neutral is what Buddhism is!

Lord, you didn't give me any money, but you gave me the right to complain

Monsanto will say "That's all there is to it, take it easy, everything's okay, dont take things too serious, it's bad enough as it is without you going the deep end over imaginary conceptions just like you always said yourself

Take it easy, everything's okay, dont take things too serious, it's bad enough as it is without you going the deep end over imaginary conceptions.

In fact I realized I had no guts anyway, which I've long known. but I have joy.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.

Pray do not interrupt me, he wrote. I am smiling.

Man always gets less than he demands from life.

Man always gets less than he demands from life; and so little do they demand, that the less than little they get cannot save them.

And there were easements and satisfactions. To have a full stomach, to doze lazily in the sunshine–such things were remuneration in full for his ardours and toils, while his ardours and tolls were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself. So the cub had no quarrel with his hostile environment. He was very much alive, very happy, and very proud of himself.

I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace.

For many years, I didn't feel I'd find anything that I'd like as much as 'Twin Peaks.'

I've got eighteen-year-old twins that need to go to college, so there's still a financial issue, but I could retire tomorrow and just count ducks by the side of the lake, and that would be just fine by me. I'm not a high-energy guy.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.

Two people happy with themselves can be exceptionally happy together.