Quotes About Contentment

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

I just met a wonderful new man, he is fictional but you can't have everything

Wieczna pustka jest w porz?dku, je?li jest si? odpowiednio ubranym.

If I died right now I couldn't complain—and neither would a lot of other people.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to a hundred.

I would go with you through the fires of death. Yet am happiest alone.

The hundred flavors of rare dainties     Are no more once you've eaten your fill.     You may accumulate private savings     But not in your stomach private hoardings!

There is no water like the water out of your own well.

A bird in the hand is worth three in the Bush.

To count a few gulls makes the journey happy. In the reedy bend, under the willow bank, My wife and children smile with me. The moment I fall asleep, wind and waves are quiet; No glory, no disgrace, and not a single worry.

Being who you are is a pure religious experience. If you can stay with that experience, just being a part of All-That-Is, that's enough. Instead, we go searching chasing after masters because most of us want more than just being ourselves.

Nunca creí que fueran necesarias tantas risotadas para sobrevivir a la tristeza. No es que esté uno contento con ser infeliz, sino que nadie puede serlo a toda hora.

Un día me dijeron que la felicidad consiste en no querer moverse de donde una está.

Dicen que cuando una es feliz, se queda sin historias que contar

that the truly contented man is not the possessor of vast riches. The crown of happiness goes to the person who has the skill to gain money fairly, use it honorably, and not mistake gold for a god of power and light.

but I have always thought that to need nothing is divine, and to need as little as possible is the nearest approach to the divine; and that what is divine is best, and what is nearest to the divine is the next best.

This story has a happy ending.

Cái quan tr?ng ? ??i là ph?i k?t thúc m?i th? cho ch?n chu. Có th? ta má»›i yên tâm mà Ä'i ???c. N?u không thì lúc nào trong ta cÅ©ng ??y nh?ng l?i mu?n nói mà ch?ng bao gi? nói, và lòng ta s? n?ng trÄ©u ân h?n.

It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood.

Everything in me, right down to the pores of my skin, was expressing joy.

Within the limits of their nature, they make do with what they have.

The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.