Quotes About Contentment

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God's special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is nonessential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord.

We have, all of us, more reasons for staying than for marching. What's the point in marching if you are only going to catch up with a very sad tune?

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.

Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.

doing nothing often leads to the very best of something

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

Blue, life is full of horrible things. One must find something that makes one happy and stick to it.

Abbie felt her eyelids drifting shut, and let peace wash over her.

Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.

The middle was where it was too easy to be lazy and cynical at the same time.

Life isn't about the things you can't have... It is about those blessings you do find along the way.

Our souls we'll resign with utmost content. You lying by me, and I lying by you.

yang dihajat, tapi tak dapat, adalah nikmat, yang paling padat.

Segala yang dihasrat tapi tak didapat adalah nikmat yang paling padat.

He said it with the air of a man who always demands the best, and then settles for what he can get.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh.

I might have known," said Eeyore. "After all, one can't complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!'. The Social Round. Always something going on.

don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

what I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, What are you going to do, Christopher Robin, and you say, Oh, nothing, and then you go and do it.

Ik ben echt blij," zei Knorretje tevreden, "dat ik je iets heb gegeven om in een handig potje te bewaren.