Quotes About Contentment

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

Most people would rather live within their means than expand their means.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

La mayoría de las personas preferirían vivir dentro de sus medios que expandir sus medios.

We don't need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.

Failure's sleeve cannot help but brush against the back of gratified desires and insatiability is inevitably left to gaze with smoldering eyes into the wise, peaceful eyes of a person who finds satiation within himself.

En la continua necesidad de goce y prueba de cosas siempre nuevas se me antoja un rasgo de pequeñez, falta de vida interior, alejamiento de la Naturaleza y mediana o defectuosa capacidad de comprensión. Es a los niños pequeños a los que siempre hay que mostrarles algo nuevo y distinto para que no estén descontentos.

Se aburren quienes se pasan la vida esperando que algo los estimule desde fuera...

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

The gift that isn't big enough to make a mark, but is too big to leave the possessor in peace. And so they can't be content to be Sunday painters, or poets who write for a few friends, or composers whose handful of delicate little settings of Emily Dickinson can't find a singer. It's a special sort of hell.

Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things — the job, the house, the this, the that — do not really fill the place inside.

Unhappiness of the kind that is recognized and examined and brooded over is a spiritual luxury.

I think you're perfect just the way you are. Don't change anything.

The apostle Paul wrote that he'd learned to be content in whatever circumstances he was in. I used to think I was content, but now I could see that my contentment was based upon how well I controlled the circumstances of my life, not upon my trust in a loving God.

I used to think I was content, but now I could see that my contentment was based upon how well I controlled the circumstances of my life, not upon my trust in a loving God.

Even Mongo liked him, although Mongo likes everybody. (Also Mongo was so thrilled with himsel for staying in the dog bed till I'd released him that nothing was going to blow his mood.)

when you are happy, when you have never been happy before, when you hadn't even known you weren't happy, it is hard to believe that it won't all go away again, isn't it?

It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind.

And then there's this strange vast serenity that seems to come from the fact that he doesn't feel he has to prove anything.

Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.

I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.

The richest person in the world, I've since discovered, isn't the person who has the most but the one who needs the least.

Some of life's best pleasures are simplest ones. Enrich your life with more of them and your heart will be happy.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?