Quotes About Contentment

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

People should learn to live in the now. They spend all their time thinking about past glories and worrying about the future. Meanwhile all the moments of spontaneity and beauty they'll ever have in their lives are flitting from future into past without being noticed. That's why there are so many grumpy assholes in the world

Love is enough, though the world be awaning.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

Don't do anything for pleasure that you don't enjoy.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father's care.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself?

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,My gay apparel for an almsman's gown.