Quotes About Contentment

I'm very happy to say that my home life is my haven.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Life is too short not to surround yourself with beautiful things.

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction

Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly [that I want] to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

You can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like. you can even marry harry, but mess around with ike and that's good, isn't it grand? isn't it great? isn't it swell? in fifty years or so, it's gonna change you know, but oh it's heaven now a days.

I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?

Ignorance is the peace of life.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.