Quotes About Contentment

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest riches is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

Scale is not a destination. Don't get caught up in the narrative telling you to grow if growth isn't what you really want. Remember, big isn't the same as great.

Happiness is a skill. Don't pursue it-embrace it.

Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.

We can develop habits that help us feel gratitude, contentment, and joy, without diminishing how desperately we miss our loved one.

T]o a limited being its limited understanding is not felt to be a limitation; on the contrary, it is perfectly happy and contented with this understanding[.]

Waldeinsamkeit, Die mich erfreut, So morgen wie heut In ewger Zeit, O wie mich freut Waldeinsamkeit. Waldeinsamkeit Wie liegst du weit! O Dir gereut Einst mit der Zeit. Ach einzige Freud Waldeinsamkeit! Waldeinsamkeit Mich wieder freut, Mir geschieht kein Leid, Hier wohnt kein Neid Von neuem mich freut Waldeinsamkeit.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. That way, you'll never be disappointed.

But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less.

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. That way, you'll never be dissappointed.

I find myself staring at the goldfish. Bright as a penny, he swims in circles, happy to be going nowhere.

Happiness was relative

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

And that's what I think love is...when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing.

People move too fast and talk too much, and before you know it, they come back to a place they don't want to be - except now they know there's nowhere left to run.

The opposite of love, you think, isn't hate. It's complacency.

I take my paycheck in sunsets.

Best place to be? Adrienne asks after a moment. On the other side of this wall. In my bed, at home. Anywhere with Nathaniel. Before, I answer, because I know she'll understand.