Quotes About Contentment

Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Seamos sinceros, una persona feliz no deja de comer durante x cantidad de días.Una persona feliz y despreocupada, una persona "normal" no cuenta cada caloría: simplemente come. Y en última instancia, si engorda hace dieta NORMAL y tema acabado. Como ya se habrán enterado, normal no es una palabra que pegue mucho conmigo.

Lo conozco, se que no va a ser feliz con nadie, porque ni siquiera es feliz consigo mismo. Siempre volvió, siempre vuelve, siempre va a volver.

Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.

Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.

N'exigez pas beaucoup et vous ne serez pas decu. Don't expect much, and you won't be disappointed.

N'exigez pas beaucoup et vous ne serez ps decu

Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. – Matthew 6:33

Bagaimanapun, aku bahkan akan merasa kurang bahagia bila tidak memenuhi panggilan jiwaku.

Aku tidak mempunyai sesuatu yang banyak, tetapi juga tidak membutuhkan yang banyak.

Dalam masalah pribadi maupun politik, aku sering menimbulkan teka-teki pada orang lain. Biasanya para presiden duduk bersandar dan menunggu untuk dilayani. Sukarno tidak. Aku baru merasa bahagia kalau orang yang berada disekitarku merasa bahagia.

That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.

It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.

era al di sopra di tutti ma non dipendeva da lui: aveva semplicemente dimenticato di desiderare

I think turning fifty means you want to keep everything you already have, but you also want everything you haven't managed to get yet, too. Before it's too late.

I will always have enough. I will always be enough.

Neither one of us talks, the way people sometimes don't when they are happy – but as soon as I have this thought, I realise its opposite is also true.

She sometimes found herself standing in the barn watching her fowl pecking the seed, feeling happy until she realised she wasn't.

in the mechanics of the ordinary, working week. Sundays could feel very threadbare, and raw. Why could he not relax and enjoy them like other men who took a pint or two after Mass before falling asleep at the fire with the newspaper, having eaten a plate of dinner?

Enseguida recuperó el control y llegó a la conclusión de que nunca se volvía a lo que había pasado; a cada uno se le daban días y oportunidades que no volvían a tenerse. ¿No era acaso agradable estar donde estabas y dejar que, por una vez, eso te recordara el pasado, a pesar del malestar, en lugar de estar siempre pendiente de la mecánica de los días y los problemas futuros, que tal vez nunca llegasen?