Quotes About Contentment

Vano è dire che gli esseri umani dovrebbero contentarsi della tranquillità: occorre loro l'azione; e la creeranno, se non riescono a trovarla.

If you're living the way you want to, the concept of holidays becomes obsolete.

There are times when I need to read the Thirty-seventh Psalm, over and over again. Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure: fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil.

HOW CAN YOU BE HAPPY IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME THINKING ABOUT DOING IT?" Owen asked.

If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.

That men, who might have tower'd in the van Of all the congregated world, to fan And winnow from the coming step of time All chaff of custom, wipe away all slime Left by men-slugs and human serpentry, Have been content to let occasion die, Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium.

Be careful to let no fretting injure your health as I have suffered it—health is the greatest of blessings—with health and hope we should be content to live, and so you will find as you grow older.

I sue not for my happy crown again; I sue not for my phalanx on the plain; I sue not for my lone, my widow'd wife; I sue not for my ruddy drops of life, My children fair, my lovely girls and boys! 550 I will forget them; I will pass these joys; Ask nought so heavenward, so too–too high: Only I pray, as fairest boon, to die, Or be deliver'd from this cumbrous flesh

Then, too, if I were a Negro, I would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available. My mother herself, a worn old Negress, would be too broken by years of underpaid labor as a domestic to go out bowling at night. She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless.

Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding. The poor man has always a precise view of his problem and its remedy: he hasn't enough and needs more.

There is no major case against life's enjoyments.

Please don't spoil my day; I'm miles away and, after all, I'm only sleeping.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping...

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

rain, I don't mind

Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone But it all works out It doesn't matter much to me.

if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!

Mi madre siempre me decía que la felicidad es clave para la vida. Cuando fui a la escuela, me preguntaron qué quería ser cuando fuera grande. Dije feliz. Me dijeron que no entendía la pregunta... Y yo les respondí que ellos no entendían la vida

If one is fed, housed, and healthy, then debts, pride, conscience, standards, dignity, and what you will, will have to be laughed off....

He once wrote: "Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.

You can satisfy some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot satisfy all of the people all the time