Quotes About Contentment

A young Tibetan child touches his head to the floor before the altar and recites a prayer, and I am led to a moment of contentment. This too is part of our struggle as Tibetans: to remind our children and ourselves that we are Tibetan.

Clay would be just as happy if nobody ever noticed how wonderful he is. Then he could sleep and eat and take care of us instead of fighting. Starflight

Because happiness is not where I am . . . it's who I'm with.

She kept smiling,

She's a little different after two thousand years, that's all," Darkstalker said hurriedly. "This is better, though. She always worried about the future too much. Now she won't worry and we can just be happy and everything will be fine.

Always we should appreciate what we are able to do, and not feel bad about what we haven't done.

Appreciation and contentment, the ability to rejoice in all things large and small, is a major training of Buddhism. The Dharmapada says: Good health is the most excellent of achievements. Contentment is the most excellent wealth. A harmonious friend is the most excellent of friends. Nirvana is the most excellent happiness.

Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.

I wonder, James, whether it is not too easy for a rich man to despise money

I am so happy that you saw your epop.

I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep: perhaps the poor man and the wakeful man have some great moral advantage

have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep: perhaps the poor man and the wakeful man have some great moral advantage. How does it arise?

none of the peevishness and ill-nature so usual in the elderly.

Happiness equals consumption divided by desire.

Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier, his mother said to him.

If she could only give up, relax, and live in the perfect knowledge that there was no hope.

It seems to me that if one could accept existence as it is, partake of it fully, the world could be magical. The cricket on my balcony at the moment piercing the night repeatedly with its hurried needle of sound, would be welcome merely because it is there, rather than an annoyance because it distracts me from what I am trying to do.

thing, the unthinking laughter of the secure.

Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing that they have is money.

Nothing in life ever was a complete and one hundred per cent success, but often one could well afford to settle for less, and this would seem to be the greatest lesson one could learn in life.

To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Why Brownlee left, and where he went, Is a mystery even now. For if a man should have been content It was him; two acres of barley, One of potatoes, four bullocks, A milker, a slated farmhouse. He was last seen going out to plough On a March morning, bright and early. By noon Brownlee was famous; They had found all abandoned, with The last rig unbroken, his pair of black Horses, like man and wife, Shifting their weight from foot to Foot, and gazing into the future.

Have less; do less; say no.