Quotes About Contentment

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Ain't got no reason to be complainin', and I done got me a heap of reasons to be thankful. I reckon that makes me be doin' just fine,

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Some people," Rumpelstiltskin told the cats, "just aren't happy unless they aren't happy.

On peut vivre sans philosophie, sans musique, sans joie et sans amour. Mais pas si bien.

Si può vivere senza musica, senza gioia, senza amore e senza filosofia. Ma mica tanto bene.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

Better is the enemy of good.

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

This is the happiest of all men, for he is superior to everything he possesses.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

En ese momento lo que sentía era paz. Y estaba seguro de que mi vida, todo lo que había hecho, me había conducido hasta este preciso y justo momento. Había cumplido con mi razón de ser.

It's easier to be a dog if one accepts there are many things that are incomprehensible and just concentrate on being happy.

guessed that's why he'd come to this mountain, to play with me, because he didn't seem to have much else to do with his life.

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient.

It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast.