Quotes About Contentment

When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: "I wish no gifts, only presence."

Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

Don't feed your heart anxiety — it's only hungry for love.

Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy.

...there was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

This is my favorite place — inside your hug.

Humans have forgotten so much... It's so easy for us to live now that our lives have no meaning. So we start looking for something else, something more. Money. A bigger house. A hobby. Church.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.

Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.

On the other hand, the great helpless mass of the population, the people of the abyss, was sinking into a brutish apathy of content with misery.

he had lived the existence of a sated aristocrat;

Yasalara uymak, ac?dan uzak olmay? sa?lar ve mutluluk getirirdi.

la vida resulta dichosa cuando se toma como viene.

He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore. 

He was never disturbed over why a thing happened.  How it happened was sufficient for him. 

Dac? mi-ar fi dat s? aleg între a fi obligat s? tr?iesc în Molokai tot restul vieÈ›ii, sau în East End-ul Londrei, East Side-ul New Yorkului sau Stockyard-ul Chicago-ului, aÅŸ alege Molokai-ul f?r? s? ÅŸov?i. AÅŸ prefera un singur an în Molokai pentru cinci ani de via?? în oricare din celelalte locuri amintite - haznale ale degrad?rii ÅŸi mizeriei umane.

I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will; it cannot be belabored.

In keeping with his own sober manner and simple style of living, Genghis Khan warned them against the pursuit of a "colorful" life with material frivolities and wasteful pleasures. "It will be easy," he explained, "to forget your vision and purpose once you have fine clothes, fast horses, and beautiful women." In that case, "you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.

Life is too short to spend every day doing something you don't love.

Non c'è appagamento che non sia reso più dolce dal protrarsi del desiderio.

Take your happiness where you find it, children, and don't ask too many questions. Life is too short and uncertain to do otherwise.

I love you, and I would choose to be with you whether in a slum or a cave or a palace.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.

I'm envious." She gave another shrug. " 'Tis a poet's curse to live in placid times.