Quotes About Contentment

Ask nothing from running and you'll get more than you ever imagined

Ask nothing from your running, in other words, and you'll get more than you ever imagined.

Caballo was content to just sit alone under a tree, smiling and sipping a beer,

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns to have a home. And yet how bestial is content—all the great things in life are done by discontented people.

Giorno per giorno vedo la gente affollarsi nei teatri e nei cinematografi, e so che per la metà delle volte, e anche più, vanno a una ricerca cieca, e credono di essere soddisfatti mentre in realtà vengono pasciuti di miseri gusci vuoti. E la parte più triste di tutto questo è che se ci si immagina di essere soddisfatti dei gusci, non rimarrà più appetito per il buon grano.

He was willing to wait until the last dollar was broken: in the meantime he was content. You never know the soul of a city, he said, until you are down on your luck. Now, he felt, he had been here long enough to understand her.

He had no responsibilities, not even a motor car, for his tastes were surprisingly simple. If he happened to be spending an evening at the country club, and a rainstorm came down, he did not worry about getting home. He would sit by the fire and chuckle to see the married members creep away one by one. He would get out his pipe and sleep that night at the club, after telephoning Fuji not to sit up for him.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race. It saddens me to think that I shall have to die with thousands of books unread that would have given me noble and unblemished happiness.

Find peace in where and what you are.

The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.

How little he needs. Just love. More love. — Christopher Wiseman, from "Bedside Manners," Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems , eds. Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R. Wilson (Grayson Books, 2017)

Happiness is the abscence of the striving for happiness.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

A marsh pheasant has to walk ten paces for a bite to eat and a hundred for a sip of water. But still it wouldn't want to be tamed and put into a cage. Even treated like a king, it could never be happy and content.

The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly.

I cannot tell if what the world considers 'happiness' is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.

The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show -- listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

My past is redeemed. My present makes sense. My future is secure. I'm done and finished with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.