Quotes About Contentment

In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.

Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.

Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

C'est plein de disputes, un bonheur.

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

A little too much is just enough for me.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Les faibles tirent une satisfaction morose à comparer leur infortune présente avec leur bonheur passé, et tentent ainsi de se prouver à eux-mêmes que leur vie n'a pas été manquée tout entière. (Troisième partie, ch. VI)

Hij wilde snel bereiken wat voor hem weggelegd was, zodat de dood hem kon meenemen zonder dat hij ergens spijt van had.

C'était si simple, à l'ancienne façon : l'homme, et, tout autour, mais sous lui, les bêtes, les plantes; ça marchait bien, comme ça. On tue un lièvre, on cueille un fruit; une pêche, c'est du jus sucré dans la bouche, un lièvre c'est un grand plat débordant de viande noire. Après, on s'essuie la bouche et on fume une pipe sur le seuil.

He walked briskly.    He was all wrapped up in his joy.    He was filled with songs, packed in his throat and pressing against his teeth. He puckered up his lips.    It was a joy of which he wanted to savour all the smell and taste the juice as long as possible, like a sheep eating grass in the evening among the hills. He went on like that, until the beautiful silence had settled within him and around him, like a meadow.

rien n'est beau en ce monde comme le visage d'une femme qui ne cherche pas à plaire.

I been good. Real good. Gettin' old, but nuttin' I can do about it. If I wake up in the morning and see the sky, I know it's gonna be a good day.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

When you inquire in yourself, all you desire is desirelessness.

What do you think about astral travel? And about getting out of the body? ... I do not know about it. I am very happy in this body. Why should I get out? [laughter]

What any desire really aims at, is a state of non-desire. This non-desire is a state in which we demand absolutely nothing. Thus it is a state of extreme abundance, of fullness. This fullness is revealed as being bliss and peace. You now know that you are really seeking nothing else but fullness and absolute peace.

In welcoming all that is, we live our freedom, openness, directionlessness, desirelessness.