Quotes About Contentment

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. —Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Ain't but three things in this world worth a solitary dime/ But old dogs, children, and watermelon wine

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

Now when I was a boy My daddy sat me on his knee And he told me He told me many things He said son There's a lot of things in this world You're gonna have no use for And when you get blue And you've lost all your dreams There's nothin' like a campfire And a can of beans

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy , but how much you enjoy what you have. Tom Wilson

Doing what you love is freedom, loving what you do is happiness.

Find happiness in your own sandbox.

Money can't buy love but it can sure buy a nice frickin mattress.

Never regret something that truly made you happy.

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE", "WEALTH is having things money can't buy" Health and Family and Love and Friendships"!(COMPASSION)!

What we want we can't have and what we have we don't want.

You are not truly rich until you have something that money can't buy.

Don't go chasing happiness. Instead, pursue the factors and conditions that create it.

Life's only true requirement: be happy.

Contento, proprio contento sono stato molte volte nella vita ma più di tutte quando mi hanno liberato in Germania che mi sono messo a guardare una farfalla senza la voglia di mangiarla.

Je veilig voelen, maakt dat gelukkig?

I'm remembering something else, too. That remark you made to me about Shakespeare. I asked the woman at the library about Othello, and she got me a copy. He was just about as stupid as me. But with me, I didn't have someone egging me on. I did it to myself. Looking for a treasure when I already had one.

The way he understood hozho was hard to put into words. "I'll use an example. Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried out. No water. The Hopi, or the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. The system is designed to recognize what's beyond human power to change, and then to change the human's attitude to be content with the inevitable.

Happiness was always on her side of the horizon, safely in Dinetah, safely between the Sacred Mountains. She never felt any need to learn what lay beyond them.

You weren't listening. I asked you why you decided to quit." Leaphorn had said nothing for a while. "Just tired." Thatcher had shaken his head. "You're going to miss it." "No, you get older. Or wiser. You realize it doesn't really make any difference.

Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried up. No water. The Hopi, and the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. The system is designed to recognize what's beyond human power to change, and then to change the human's attitude to be content with the inevitable." - Tony Hillerman, Sacred Clowns, 1993

where sophistication required the deeper and more difficult knowledge of how one walked in beauty, content in a difficult world?