Quotes About Contentment

I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night. Wherever you are in your day, I hope you're laughing.

My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exist without pride of ambition. To live in hibernation.

Il faut admirer les gens capables d'être heureux.

How good it felt to exist without pride or ambition. To live in hibernation.

Si quieres ser feliz, vive escondido»

Nada le falta a quien nada desea

Para qué iba a hacer un esfuerzo? Yo ya estoy bien así... Para aceptar hacer un esfuerzo, es necesario no estar satisfecho con el destino de uno.

Uno nunca es tan feliz como cuando encuentra el medio de perderse.

Quand on cesse de souffrir, cela s'appelle réconfort. Cesser d'avoir soif ne s'appelle pas.

Tout le plaisir des jours est en leurs matinées

Nada mejor que ser mediocre para pensar bien de uno mismo.

Le plaisir est une merveille, qui m'apprend que je suis moi. Moi, c'est le siège du plaisir. Le plaisir, c'est moi: chaque fois qu'il y aura du plaisir, il y aura moi. Pas de plaisir sans moi, pas demi sans plaisir !

Amé, fuí amado, el sol acarició mi faz. ¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz! I loved, I was loved, the sun stroked my face. Life, you owe me nothing! Life, we are at peace!

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.

I don't think you can measure wealth in dollars and cents. I really don't believe that at all because there are some things that money cannot buy. One of them is health. And the other is security in your relationships and friends.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.