Quotes About Contentment

Enough is abundance to the wise.

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.

Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.

I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.

Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Pleasure is the most real good in this life.

Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

If you can't enjoy the time between golf shots, then you are going to have a pretty difficult life because most of you life is the time spent in-between.