Quotes About Contentment

I needed so much To have nothing to touch I've always been greedy that way

only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy

Things wabi-sabi have no need for the reassurance of status or the validation of market culture. They have no need for documentation of provenance. Wabi-sabi-ness in no way depends on knowledge of the creator's background or personality. In fact, it is best if the creator is no distinction, invisible, or anonymous.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Life well spent is long.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Cloud war das wolligste Schaf der Herde, und sie füllte sich überall wohl. Wollig und wohlig hingen zusammen.

This secluded spot was the haunt of thousands of honey bees that zimmed all through the warm days at their business. I could sit amongst the bees for hours on end and feel happy, although why they pleased me so I cannot tell.

But why talk in superlatives, as if something that is beautiful could be surpassed?

When parents, in the belief that they are doing the right thing, trample underfoot some ideal that lies latent in the heart of their child they cause, more often than not, to germinate in its place disillusionment, hatred, vice; it is fortunate indeed if the existence thus turned awry does not degrade into a life of crime, instead of one of calm content and universal respect.

The people were less earnest than we, and might think less, but they all looked happy. Supposedly, dying is easier in the south.

Te roba algo de tu alegría que yo haya pertenecido antes a otro y que otro me posea después de ti? ¿Será menor tu placer porque otro haya sido feliz como tú?

The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.

Imagination comes of not having things.

I would rather fail at what I love than succeed at what I hate.

That which you are looking for, you're living with.

Better a dry crust eaten in peace than a house filled with feasting—and conflict. Proverbs 17:1

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e. e. cummings

if we seek, and are aware we have missed the moment we seek, our own absolute moment in time, then we live out our lives unfulfilled. In the words of an eastern proverb: we die with our eyes open – we cannot rest; even in death we are still looking for it.

Those who are comfortably established in life tend to have no need to ask what it means.

What does one dream of when the dream has been achieved?

He was 'always busy, seldom rushed. It was a pleasant, convivial lifestyle'.