Quotes About Contentment

Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing where his relations are – even if he doesn't need them at the moment.

For a long time they looked at the river beneath them, saying nothing, and the river said nothing too, for it felt very quiet and peaceful on this summer afternoon. "Tigger is all right really," said Piglet lazily. "Of course he is," said Christopher Robin. "Everybody is really," said Pooh. "That's what I think," said Pooh. "But I don't suppose I'm right," he said. "Of course you are," said Christopher Robin.

When you love what you have, you have everything you need.

The Piglet was sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, sometime or never. He had just discovered that would be never, and was trying to remember what "it" was, and hoping it wasn't anything nice, when Pooh came up.

Don't you think that when we envy other people their qualities, their lives, their possessions--we don't mean 'I wish I were you,' but 'I wish I had some of the things you've got in addition to all I've got'?

Is that all you've got left?" and Pooh said "Yes." Because it was.

I told him that I had at first, when I had to go out to work so young, but I was used to it now and I didn't feel lonely. There were always the birds and the animals in the bush. "They are like music to me.

Down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again.

The stars have not dealt me the worst they could do: My pleasures are plenty, my troubles are two. But oh, my two troubles they reave me of rest, The brains in my head and the heart in my breast. Oh, grant me the ease that is granted so free, The birthright of multitudes, give it to me, That relish their victuals and rest on their bed With flint in the bosom and guts in the head.

Content," Guildenstern agreed. "One aspires to happiness, but not too much since one would not wish to be disappointed.

Although, in this place, he had found happiness, he had lived long enough and hard enough to understand that to forget his purpose would mean the end of that happiness. He could not live on here with the thoughts of what he had turned away from.

Aunque sus gustos eran sencillos, se trataba de esa sencillez que solamente se satisface a base de cosas buenas.

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

But I feel a sense of peace when I'm working. Happiness, almost. It's when I'm not working I feel uneasy.

J'étais heureuse à cet instant. C'était ce moment-là, et pas un autre. Et c'était tout ce que je pouvais espérer.

Lucas chiede: - Non sei mai triste? - No, perché una cosa mi consola sempre di un'altra. (una bambina)

the moral is perhaps that intellect and being well-read have no innate value to a contented or useful life. The number of hardbacks on your bedside table is in inverse proportion to the number of arched backs in your bed.

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

you're always going to be too young for something important to you, too old for something else, and the timing is just not going to be right for a third set of things. That's life, and you can make yourself crazy by dwelling on that. Or you can figure out what you are the right age for, and what the timing is right for, and celebrate those things. Where do you suppose happiness lies?

We need to appreciate what we have and strive for what we can achieve, rather than reach for what's denied to us.

Well, you know what they say: Maybe money doesn't bring happiness, but it sure enough quiets the nerves.

A gentle breeze, a rustle of leaves, it's times like this life pleases with ease.

Don't worry about things you can't change.