Quotes About Contentment

A rewarding life is aging without hatred or envy.

People go fishing because of needs. People swim because of wants. People fish and swim even in unpredictable waters for contentment.

There are still many affluent and famous people who believe in the simplicity of life. They live in peace without wanting it or needing it.

Live simple, but don't stop dreaming. The world is not yours to hold, but you can manage it in your own time.

The needs of the people may be limited because of wants. To need more is to want less. But to want more is to need more.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Every single time you set up a comparison between yourself and someone else, you lose, no one wins.

You deserve to be happy.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels Drive you crazy.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

All you really need in life is a good quality cigar, a place sit and a lighter that that works "

Sometimes your best company is you

If I cannot have too many truffles I will do without.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

We only do well the things we like doing.

Trudno zadowoli? jednocze?nie wszystkich i sam? siebie. Wol? zacz?? od siebie...

Philippe did not know how to express such a thought as: 'All too few are the occasions in life when, with mind content, eyes surfeited with beauty, heart light, retentive, and almost empty, there comes a moment for the senses to be filled to overflowing: I shall remember this as just such a moment.

At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about what I was doing was getting it over with? Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

He'd come to believe two conflicting ideas with equal conviction: that communism was the only way man could be truly content; and that man, given his selfish ways, could never practice communism with any success. The natural product of these two views was that man could never be content. History, with its procession of disgruntled political idealists, tended to prove him right.

At our age," she said, "you go for the small things and you do them as well as you can.

The secret of a happy life is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.

and Lewis felt excitement, and gratification. Somebody—some

The secret of a happy life, Lewis, is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.