Quotes About Contentment

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

We plan, we toil, we suffer — in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

Only a fool asks for happiness in this foolish, worn world. We are . . . content . . . together. That is enough for a while.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

You can't possibly enjoy growing older unless you make peace with where you are right now.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. For even love unreturned has its rainbow.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

for what is life, a good life, but the accumulation of small pleasures?

Not clinging to goals, even worthy goals, may be the way out of unhappiness.

it's difficult to be curious and unhappy at the same time.

Numerous psychological studies have shown that regular meditators are happier and more contented than average.1 These are not just important results in themselves but have huge medical significance as such positive emotions are linked to a longer and healthier life.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Se riesci a contare i soldi, vuol dire che non hai un miliardo di dollari.

I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

68. "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.