Quotes About Contentment

Wealth is when you have a lot of something you love.

Your life can get better if you realize it is better never to expect anything from anyone, not even from God.

Finding paradise wherever I go.

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

I never get tired of the blue sky.

If you don't have a dog--at least one--there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: "He is the one." But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

I'm getting on well here, I've got a lovely home & I'm finding it very pleasurable taking a look at London & the English way of life & the English people themselves, & then I've got nature & art & poetry, & if that isn't enough, what is?

Tudo aqui é perfeitamente belo, como eu gosto. Quero dizer que aqui é a paz.

Mesmo esta vida artística, que sabemos não ser a verdadeira, parece-me tão vívida e seria uma ingratidão não contentar-se com ela.

Contudo, se queremos viver e trabalhar, é preciso ser muito prudentes e cuidar-nos. Água fria, ar, alimentação simples e boa, estar bem agasalhados, dormir bem, e não ter aborrecimentos

Fortunately for me, I do not hanker after victory any more, and all that I seek in painting is a way to make life bearable.

Accustoming oneself to poverty, seeing how a soldier or a labourer lives and thrives in wind and weather, with ordinary people's fare and dwelling, is just as practical as earning a few guilders more a week. After all, one is not in the world for one's own comfort, and one does not need to be better off than one's neighbour.

and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

É melhor viver do que ser feliz.

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

But there was a salve for her wound: she could always die now, because she had drawn all her benefits from the apricot trees in autumn. Seeing them was her whole life compressed into an instant's dream.

money is something but not everything

How happy those whose walls already rise!

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

To have died once is enough.

O thrice and four times blessed!

Happy old man!