Quotes About Contentment

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.

I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If not other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself

Enough to live, enough to merely be.

Vagyok, ahogy vagyok, elég ennyi, Ha senki más nem vesz észre a világon, békén ülök, És ha mindenki észrevesz, akkor is békén ülök.

Micsoda érzés: ma vagy bármelyik napon azt érezni, hogy úgy, ahogy vagyok, kielégítÅ' vagyok!

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. (As quoted by Richard Powers in The Echo Maker)

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night, In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me, And his arm lay lightly around my breast - and that night I was happy

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

Indeed, is not the homecoming amateur with his vast number of artistic snaps more contented than the hunter, returning laden with the game which is only of value to the trader.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure.

una vida bien empleada trae una muerte feliz.»

I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wonderful because I didn't have to worry about money, to being incredibly rich, when i also didn't have to worry about money.' —Steve Jobs

As a well-spent day brings a happy sleep," Leonardo had written thirty years earlier, "so a well-employed life brings a happy death.

he was practical about what he wanted in a wife. Deborah was rather plain, but she offered the prospect of comfort and domesticity.

simply enjoy giving more than receiving in every respect, do not take myself nor the doings of the masses seriously, am not ashamed of my weaknesses and vices, and naturally take things as they come with equanimity and humor.

Upon the whole, I am much disposed to like the world as I find it, and to doubt my own judgment as to what would mend it.

Nature is pleased with simplicity

human felicity is produced . . . by little advantages that occur every day.

It was important to avoid attachment to material objects. Our consumer desires are unhealthy.

As long as I am able to work, I must not and will not complain, because work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.