Quotes About Contentment

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

When some 'blessings come to you, do not drive them away through thanklessness.

When you've nothing, at least you've all of it.

And they all died happily ever after. A very happy ending," the littlest one said.

It's why he'd got off the train here: the train had pulled towards this station and there'd been something clean about the mountains, clean like swept clean. They had something about them that accepted the fact of themselves, demanded nothing. They just were.

It was all : it was nothing : it was more than enough. Fine.

It's always nicer, I think, to be a big frog in a little puddle than to be an unrecognised croaker in a great, big pool.

I'm not interested in being insulted," Maeniel said. "I'm interested in being full. I'm hungry. Insult me after dinner, then I will have time for you.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Being happy means you've decided to accept the imperfections and get on with it anyway.

It's sometimes more torment for a man, Mr. Fagin said, to consider what might have been than to live with what is.

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

Everyday may not be good, but there's something good in every day.

May everyday be the best possible day it can be

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.

I went to a place like another planet where I felt good without wanting something.

Timeless, and loveless, this light touches me. I won't need anything else.

I don't want to bother anyone anymore, I try to stay still.

I have no skills; I have no hope; I don't want any hope. I simply want to sit here, in this calm.

I want to say something subtle, but I can't. It's that, now that no one loves me, I don't mind.

There has to be enough for us, so give it to me

Food simply isn't important to me.