Quotes About Contentment

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.

Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.

God showed me that He could and would replace everything that was missing in my life, but that nothing could replace Him in my life.

It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

Be blissful and enjoy your life; do not let yourself become obsessed with anything. Determine to use the rest of your life to benefit others as much as possible.

I'm a guy who gets more out of life than some people - more out of one big breath of fresh air than most people get from breathing in and out for a lifetime.

If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla