Quotes About Contentment

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

It's a divine art to be cheerful.

The true masters of the art of living are already happy.

Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.

My house, my house, though thou art small, Thou art to me the Escurial.

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

All I really need is my bed and my art around me.

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

Art for Art's Sake is for the well fed. The well fed are all the babies in cradles and my kitty along with them, and I am happy if my writings are for my kitty.