Quotes About Contentment

When one sleeps on the floor, one need not fear falling out of bed.

Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

The fear of not having enough prevents many from seeing that they already are enough.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Do what makes you happy. And when it doesn't make you happy anymore, make a change -- without fear.

You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.

Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.