Quotes About Contentment

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is not greater disaster than greed.

To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed.

If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?

Who loves the world? The sleeper does

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

You take what you're given, whether it's the cornfields of the Midwest or the coal mines of West Virginia, and you make your fiction out of it. It's all you have. And somehow, wherever you are, it always seems to be enough.

Are you happy by yourself?" "I'm used to it," he said. "That don't mean I like it.

Pretty good. Pretttttttty, pretttttttttty, pretttttty good.

A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.

Because, when you got right down to the real nitty-gritty, I didn't really want to be anything other than what I am.

Start every day with a smile because smile makes life beautiful.

If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.

He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits,' Augustus said. 'And getting drunk on the porch.

IS IT A SIN TO BE AVERAGE?

Especially in the modern world, where everybody is so impressed with variety and complexity, so desperate to be entertained, it is a relief to settle into this simple repetitive act.

To know you have enough is to be rich. —The Tao Te Ching

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.