Quotes About Contentment

If you can't have love in your life, you might as well have home-grown basil.

Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.

these were people who'd gotten what they wanted, only to find out that it was the last thing on earth they actually needed (adulation, creative lift-off) to maintain their own mental equilibrium. This meant something.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

Being here is like standing at the edge of the sea under a wide sky: clear, open, clean, and bright. Here is where I am meant to be.

Men, I have found, are more generous when their bellies are full.

Begu was the only person who didn't make her angry. With Begu she didn't have to think.

She might wish Bony were bigger, and she might wish for a shield, but this was what she had.

It felt like a moment out of time, endless. The grass was pleasantly prickly against her thighs and arms. She stretched, wiggled, laughed: happy.

Everything tasted round and ripe. The air was as rich and sweet as cider. Just breathing fed some part of her.

Hild did what she always she did when she couldn't influence a thing; she stopped thinking about it.

Christ wasn't their god, some muttered, not yet. But most didn't care. They were happy to eat.

The air in her lungs evaporated in a puff she turned to a laugh, and she sat down. Breathed. Smiled.

False elegance is preferable to genuine vulgarity. The man who dwells in an imaginary palace demands more from himself than the man who is happy with his hovel.

Reeducating man will consist of teaching him once again to value objects correctly: that is, to need few.

He who accepts the rank which nature assigns him does not turn into the mere absence of what he is not. Even the most modest thing has, in its proper place, immeasurable worth.

Serenity is the fruit of uncertainty freely accepted.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Greatest fools are oft most satisfied.

Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

Happiness is not easy to find. It's very difficult to find it in yourself — and impossible to find anywhere else.

Don't you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we'd be happy if we did?