Quotes About Contentment

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

The law of nature is such that everyone gets happiness according to their needs. The 'tender' that everyone (of us) fills out, is indeed fulfilled.

Happiness is the primary goal of human existence.

Look Below and You'll feel Rich, Look Above and You'll feel Poor

No matter how few possessions you own or how little money you have, loving wildlife and nature will make you rich beyond measure.

It's completely okay to sediment and live a life on the base of the earth and not up high.--Like the pearls of sea found in its bottom, the pearls of life are also found in the niches of ground.

Beholdthe azure sea in front of you, the turquoise sky above you, the amber mountain beneath your feet, and the golden daisy in your hands.How are you not the richest person on earth?

How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness.

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.