Quotes About Contentment

The world is] a wonderful place to live and lots more wonderful if you live in such a way that you can live with yourself.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Happiness isn't a destination, it's a mode of travel. Don't worry be happy.

The man who does not get a certain satisfaction out of his day's work is losing the best part of his pay.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

I wake up every day with a smile on my face.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.

In this world of semblance, we are contented with personating happiness; to feel it, is an art beyond us.

The best is the enemy of the good,

I will be missed after my death, but I will miss nothing.

It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how… and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

I situate myself, and seat myself, And where you recline I shall recline, For every armchair belonging to you as good as belongs to me. I loaf and curl up my tail I yawn and loaf at my ease after rolling in the catnip patch." (From Meow of Myself, from LEAVES OF CATNIP )