Quotes About Contentment

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

A man shall never be enriched by envy.

I like my home and I like the nature.

The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.

When you experience the light, voila, you're happy. The very nature of the light is happiness. You don't have to do anything or be anybody special.

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?