Quotes About Contentment

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Greed and peace preclude each other.

Meditation is like sobriety in that it doesn't make everything perfect but helps us be okay with how everything is.

I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

That is what makes it all so fascinating, you see. Loving you is like gravity or the daily sunrise. It is a mystery that I know I will be content to explore for the rest of my life.

Loving you is like gravity or the daily sunrise. It is a mystery that I know I will be content to explore for the rest of my life.

It is not good for the spirits to dwell on that which cannot be altered.

You'll never truly be happy until you've found a place that you can call your own. A place that will be in your heart.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

If a girl found the right man, she might not need love stories. She might find them in a pair of strong arms before drifting off to sleep. Pages unread.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

once a man has tasted strong drink, he finds wine insipid

Live it well and this life can be grand.

My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

We're always pushing through, hurrying on our long way, trying to get to some other place instead of enjoying the place we'd already got to.

Do not set your heart on wealth…Do not strain to seek increase,What you have, let it suffice you.If riches come to you by theft,They will not stay the night with you….They made themselves wings like geese,And flew away to the sky.

Better is poverty in the hand of the god,Than wealth in the storehouse;Better is bread with a happy heartThan wealth with vexation.

A contented mind is a continual feast.

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

I look at the world and my own life as if I were a stranger. I wish for nothing, except perhaps that time would stop.

La riqueza no se mide por las cosas que se poseen sino por aquellas de las que sabemos prescindir.