Quotes About Contentment

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.

My fiftieth year had come and gone, I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay good night and quickly turn away.

Yet surely there are men who have made their art Out of no tragic war, lovers of life, Impulsive men that look for happiness And sing when they have found it.

An aimless joy is a pure joy

When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blest.

Let all your thinks be thanks.

poverty proved greater than vanity...

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.

I offer you what I have my Poverty

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich.

I have no sense of well-being. There's no chance the well will run dry.

There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.

If you were given one wish, what would you wish for? To wish no more.

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.

Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got.