Quotes About Contentment

Freedom is the world of joy.

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

Simplicity is freedom.

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.

[A]s long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.

I need freedom to be happy.

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

When we free ourselves from desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

I am at peace with myself.

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.

Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend.

If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.