Quotes About Contentment

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

The height of perfection is mediocrity.

No, I don't want to commit suicide, but I should like to fade away and die gently. To depart from life as one gets out of a bath.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Un poco de buena compañía, un poco de comprensión, inclusive un poco de amor es todo cuanto necesitan, y suelen agradecerlo. Un poco de todo nada más, por supuesto, porque su soledad es insaciable

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Pile up gold, heap up silver, build covered walks, fill your house with slaves and the town with debtors, unless you lay to rest the passions of the soul, and put a curb on your insatiable desires, and rid yourself of fear and anxiety, you are but pouring out wine for a man in a fever, and giving honey to a man who is bilious, and laying out a sumptuous banquet for people who are suffering from dysentery

but happiness is like this, not handed out by the bucket from your television set but measured from a thimble by a stingy but wise old God and so we savored it

He is rich enough that wants nothing.

Yesterday I was so full of hope. My life seemed blessed, full of adventures and answered prayers, and now something very, very bad has happened and it will never be the same again. And it all happened because I was greedy. Because I couldn't have an ordinary life. Because I was so taken with the wonders of the world that I could not be content with anything less than the constant awareness of its miracles.

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

There would be plump artichokes ready for him in the garden, trees heavy with plums, soft roses, the river flowing, and between the crab-Apple trees the hammock hanging like a smile in a landscape as familiar to him as the face of his mother.

The early morning is mine and I'm glad of it. Back home, I bumble about in my vest and shorts, tipping water from the icebox into a bucket to swab the floor, pushing the new block into place. I boil coffee on the Primus and sing to myself as I start clearing away last night's dinner things, carefully observing our systems for the conservation of water.

When people get what they want, they haven't a clue what to do with it.

Whatever our desires may be, getting the object of our desire is not the same thing as contentment, which comes from within. In the end, we'll never find complete contentment, a perfect sense of peace, if our mind isn't content and at peace.

Simple living high thinking..!!

I am only a poor man, accustomed to small things and silence.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.