Quotes About Contentment

I have nothing to compain about. I am here to enjoy the breathtaking beauty of nature.

I am so busy being kind today that I have no time to complain.

To enjoy a stress free life, enjoy what you have-not what you think you deserve.

Happiness is the appreciation of what you have, not what you should have.

When you have true love in your heart, You will never be depressed or fall apart.

For life we need three things only: nourishment, love, and peace.

The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold allkinds of wares. Finally he said, "What a lot of things I don't need!

When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

twice I have lived forever in a smile

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

We love the things we love for what they are.

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

What grace I have is enough.

There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.