Quotes About Contentment

Most people don't live; they just race.

You mustn't get me used to too many luxuries. One doesn't miss what one has never had; but it's awfully hard going without things after one has commenced thinking they are his.

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).

À ce moment-là, je crois, j'ai pris conscience qu'aucune existence, si heureuse ou brillante fût-elle, ne me suffirait jamais. Il vient toujours un moment où le rêveur, qui d'ordinaire se croit heureux parce que ses songes l'emportent sans cesse ailleurs, prend conscience de son malheur.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Despite everything, he likes being alive.

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

One can enjoy existence, not life.

Not the kind of passionate, thrilling happy that can quickly turn into disappointment, but the calm happy that comes when life is steadily going along just the way it should.

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain.

Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.

I was happy, and nothing in the world can make you oblivious to your surroundings like happiness.

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Solitude my solace, wrapped around me like layers of golden hair. Stacks of books and I can sing as loud as I please all day and night. [from the poem, Rapunzel: I like the Quiet ]

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

I don't miss politics.

Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true.

I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast.

I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens.

Try to take it one step at a time. Even looking two steps ahead can be very intimidating, know what I mean? Breathe more deeply, drink more water, meditate more often. Take it easy. You're not struggling to climb from hell into heaven, you're just having an in-the-body experience. It's not evil, it's just life, and when it's over, you die; easy as falling off a log.

Everything is exactly as it should be, including your belief that it is not