Quotes About Contentment

Se dice que los humanos no se satisfacen jamás, que se les da una cosa y siempre quieren algo más. Y se dice esto con erróneo desprecio, ya que es una de las mayores virtudes que tiene la especie y la que la hace superior a los animales que se dan por satisfechos con lo que tienen.

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor inside hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do'll make him feel rich

If you want to give me a present-give me a good life. That would be something I could value.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough.

Maybe less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Dar Fauna era convinsa, dintr-o indelungata experienta proprie, ca in primul rand oamenii nu stiu ce vor, ca in al doilea rand nu stiu cum sa obtina ceea ce vor si ca in al treilea rand nu stiu sa profite de ceea ce au.

There was a wall against learning. A man wanted his children to read, to figure, and that was enough. More might make them dissatisfied and flighty.

No. I won't want it ever. I would have been so happy if you could have given me—well, what your brother has—pride in the thing he's doing, gladness in his progress. Money, even clean money, doesn't stack up with that." His eyes widened a little and he said, "Have I made you angry, son? Don't be angry. If you want to give me a present—give me a good life. That would be something I could value.

I know why I'm going—and, Tom, I know where I'm going, and I am content.

Don't worry yourself, Rosasharn. Take your breath in when you need it, an' let it go when you need to.

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich

We'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we'll just say the hell with goin' to work, and we'll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an' listen to the rain comin' down on the roof

printings, he told Pascal Covici, his editor at The Viking Press, that he was "immensely pleased

we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs

They just know the nature of things too well to be caught in that wanting.

Lately I never felt good enough. I always wanted to explain to him that I was not good. And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. Is that it? I guess so. Maybe that's it.

It took Doc longer to go places than other people. He didn't drive fast and he stopped and ate hamburgers very often.

enchilada in one's stomach

And like any dog, like any savage, I lay there enjoying myself, harming no man, selling nothing, competing not at all, thinking no evil, smiled on by the sun, bent over by the trees, and softly folded in the arms of the earth.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

Those born rich are harder to please than those born poor.

They inhabit a kind of heaven, economical as a memory.

While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him — so much of it, evidently, that he could not keep track of his appointments.