Quotes About Contentment

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

...certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort...

I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it's not where you're going to find your sense of completion.

I used to trouble about what life was for — now being alive seems sufficient reason.

I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast.

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

I have my own little world, but it's okay — they know me here.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

...and torture myself with happy thoughts...

There is no problem a burrito can't solve.

Happiness is a place between too little and too much.

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

...we must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie... It casts out stress as the heat of the hand repels quicksilver... Keep you your precious vapors, your fantods, your anxiety. Give me a pie. Give me a pie anyday.

Perhaps all pleasure is relief.

Prayer is for the grateful and for the grateful-to-be.

It is in his pleasures that a man really lives, it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Life doesn't hand out ribbons for best-lived. It's an internal decoration.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough; and when you have enough, you have self-respect.

After satisfaction, desire reposes in a cool and lucid sleep.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail... Simplify, simplify.

The goal of life: simple but not empty.