Quotes About Contentment

Since when did pursuit of quality of life trump actual quaility of life?

Your sight will be lost. It is not too late. You are humble still, pure. Let go of this fascination with earthly riches. You have so much more than they.

Sometimes these days I almost think I can do without the present. The past is enough for me, it's enough for my life. Does that sound insane?

Heloise marvelled at how calmly Delia talked about herself, not trailing ragged ends of need or display.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

No deseo nada aunque lo deseo todo.

La joie réside au plus intime de l'âme; on peut aussi bien la posséder dans une obscure prison que dans un palais.

joy is not found in the things which surround us, but lives only in the soul.

He has never inspired me with any desire and left it unsatisfied, and that is why I have always found His bitter chalice full of sweetness.

Our Father, St. John of the Cross, says with great truth: "All good things have come unto me, since I no longer sought them for myself.

Sí, verdaderamente todo me sonreía en la tierra. Encontraba flores a cada paso que daba, y mi carácter alegre contribuía también a hacerme agradable la vida.

Plus les fleurs sont heureuses de faire sa volonté, plus elles sont parfaites.

The hunter does not plunder his world – he takes from it only what he truly needs. In this way the hunter ensures that his coffer, whether it holds friends, food, happiness or power, is never empty.

It is insanity for any man to wish for a different life to the one he has. Such wishes are based upon the demented idea that cowardice or laziness, or both, are honourable pursuits.

The Great Bookkeeper up in the sky has always been reluctant to give me money. Or perhaps I never learned to think big. I decided that if your demands are less than your income, you are rich, but if your demands are greater, you feel poor. The trick is to adjust your demands.

Love it the way it is.

When you learn to love hell, you will be in heaven.

She says she loves you And you know that can't be bad Yes, she loves you And you know you should be glad, ooh

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship

Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being.

Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches.

A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth.

Not to attend at the door of the wealthy, and not to use the voice of petition?these constitute the best life of a man.

The man who neither gives in charity nor enjoys his wealth, which every day increases, breathes, indeed, like the bellows of a smith, but cannot be said to live.